We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.
I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.
Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.
I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.
It's a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs - to cook.
Some people are just born to cook and talk.
An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.
I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more.
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