Cooking should be a recognized art form

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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.