When I was visiting my relatives in China I never got the sense that cooks were more highly respected. It's pretty much the same there. The cooks work in the ki

When I was visiting my relatives in China I never got the sense that cooks were more highly respected. It's pretty much the same there. The cooks work in the kitchen and you generally don't see their face or know who they are unless they are especially famous. China and Japan also have their own equivalents of "mass market" fast-food restaurants.