SC - Cookery-Art or Science

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/13/99 6:15:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, uther at lcc.net
writes:

<< Cooking not an art??? >>

Cooking is both an art and a science although I tend to lean more heavily
toward it being a science. It would not be too much of a stretch to place it
alongside engineering, architecture and the other sciences that use basic
rules and concepts to produce an unlimited number of beautiful things.

It is sad that even in the modern world cooks are looked upon as less than
brilliant scientists but it has always been that way historically. The
exception was tthe cooks of Byzantium who were widely admired by the invading
Turks. While everyone else was killed or enslaved the Turks sought out the
Byzantine cooks and pressed them into service in their own kitchens. This
practise was so universal that the cooks retreated to the monasteries where
the large black hats and black cossacks of the Eastern Orthodox monks were
adopted as clothing to hide them from the invaders.  The cooks wanting to
maintain their own identity rerained the dress but changed the color to white
thereby originating the chef's cap and coat which has been worn to this day in
one form or another. :-)

Ras
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