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Ambitions for Serious Fun at the Ritz

Written by Conor Coady

Preaching in the 1960s about the need for one-on-one guidance on the road to expertise, Michael Polanyi wrote “Connoisseurship, like skill, can be communicated only by example, not by precept. To become an expert wine-taster, to acquire a knowledge of innumerable blends of tea or to be trained as a medical diagnostician, you must go through a long course of experience under…