§3.7Innovation Sandbox

Faithful technique first, new ideas second: graduates show they can cook the documented tradition before they depart from it, and new ideas that pass review by Master Fellows and food historians are filed in a separate section of the archive. The registry documents; it never mandates – and a family recipe is one lineage within a tradition, never its single official version. Hawkers outside the Seed Bank remain free to innovate or ignore it entirely. That is the guarantee against turning the cuisine into a museum piece, and the reason this plan cannot be caricatured as freezing a living cuisine.