Converting a recipe from U.S. to metric measurements is like translating a poem from English to French — if you're not careful, you might end up making it rain ropes.

**SOURCES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE**

My mac & cheese recipe:    • Sodium Citrate Mac & Cheese — Silky S...  

Gordon Ramsay's shepherd's pie recipe:    • Classic Shepherd's Pie | Gordon Ramsay  

2007 journal article on linguistic relativity and the Russian words for blue: https://www.pnas.org/content/104/19/7780

2013 journal article on round number bias: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...