>Why should food be so hard? That it's considered an extraordinary feat to cook a wonderful dinner? Why should it be on par with painting a painting or writing

>Why should food be so hard? That it's considered an extraordinary feat to cook a wonderful dinner? Why should it be on par with painting a painting or writing a book? Painting a bad painting is trivial, as is writing a terrible book. (well, writing a few pages of a terrible book is trivial. writing a terrible 500 page novel still takes some stick-with-it, or at least a lot of cutting and pasting.) And cooking a not very good meal is pretty easy, too; Certainly no harder than churning out a few pages of bad fan-fiction. Doing those things well is more difficult. And being truly great is difficult indeed. In fact, I think music is a pretty good analogy here. It used to be that a lot more people participated in the making of music; singing was a pretty normal thing for normal people to do while working or even while making war. That just doesn't happen anymore; You could say that it is sad that the average man or woman can't sing at all, but on the other hand, we all have access to the very best musicians of our time.