Cooking should be a recognized art form
 

Seriously, hear me out on this. "Art" in many ways is about expression and getting a response from others, usually through visual or audio cues. Now when you cook something you often do the same thing. You can even see genres of food preparation, be it food that looks gross but tastes excellent, or food based on nostalgia, or even on being as foul as possible. Lets not forget pretentious meals that people eat because its fine cuisine but is at best shallow.

In many ways a chef does with food what one might do with a movie, but with smell and taste instead of sight and sound.

It already is!
Culinary ARTS

How is it not recognized as an art already? Culinary ARTs schools disagree with you. The difference is the food is consumed in restaurants instead of displayed in museums.

Sure, your run of the mill chef might not be able to elevate food to the kind of memorable experience that art should impart, but that's why you go to the good restaurants.

Edit: ninja'd

Also:

http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/8910/artcr.jpg

Its more like performance art than anything. It rather different from more convential arts because the food doesn't last, it's also limited to one person as a full experience.
So whatever you make is fleeting and limited and the culture/fame is limited to the chefs. As we do now

No man you don't get it, man. It may be considered art at art schools but it's not considered ART art, you know, man?

Like this grilled cheese sandwich I'm eating? God damn Picasso.

not really a meal can be enjoyed by many people, and for a long time plays were just as finite in an experience until we developed techonology to record it.

So obviously all we need to do is use highly advanced nanotechnology to exactly duplicate food on a molecular level. Its not rocket science

We might as well replace the "Rocket Science/Brain surgery/Rocket Surgery" analogy WITH nanotechnology. Because at best they are dealing with a simple chemical reaction and at worst they are dealing with things that would blow people's MINDS.

Horribly misshapen yet glorious to behold.

But seriously his stuff is pretty cool
 

I was going to go off onto a tangent about sculptors whose work can disappear in a matter of hours (if not while he's creating it), namely Andy Goldsworthy came to mind, but then I got distracted looking at his work and remembering that most fine artists are crazy.

Do you really want food to be lumped in with a bunch of crazy people?