The Art of Cooking

The Art of Cooking

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Food is ART and the chef is like a painter presented with an empty canvas waiting to be filled with all the colors of the rainbow which combined will make a masterpiece. Cooking is not a simple task but an art which derives from the soul of the maker to create a meal that will put a spell over the one who dears to taste it. Cooking combines all the senses and activates all nerves to work toward the single goal of creating the perfect sweetness of a Cream Brule or perfectly crusted Lasagna. And it may be perfectly safe to say that creating an exceptional meal will require more than to create a painting. Cooking requires a sense of taste, smell, touch and every other aspect of the senses which one may imagine. But who has such extraordinary powers to control the senses? Are people born chefs or do they become such with the time and practice? A chef is like no other human being. He is extraordinary because his senses are much different then ours. A chef is born different then anybody else because he has the ability to create, combining gas particles into an enchanting smells of a meal. This artist can combine all the colors of tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce into something that will prelude the eye.
Such art as done by the chef does not leave a solid mark as a painting on the wall which will last the passage of time but creates a feeling, a taste of perfect combination of natures products into one and such taste stays for ever. When time passes the taste is gone but somewhere deep into the heart of the nervous system the body still remembers and starts to drool every time the memory of artist’s meal comes back. Such art is not for a canvas because it will do it no justice. It could not be put into a photo in a beautiful frame and it could not be made into a sculpture. Such art can be done only one time for each time something is different either the fruits are bought form a different store or grew under different circumstances. Such art can be done only one time and the one who is luck enough to taste it can keep it forever.