kerya

"Some nights ago we were cooking meatballs. When we finished to mix the ingredients, my wife said: 'Before we cook them, let them rest a few hours, so they will be better'.
I thought the rest of the meatballs is similar to the thoughts' one. Ideas are the result of the mixing of experiences, meetings, thoughts, suggestions, feelings: a bunch of ingredients that melt in our mind and then produce new ideas. Before this process is complete, we need the ingredients to rest, to mix, to meet together. The rest of the meatballs is like the rest of the thoughts: after a little time, they are better.
The kitchen is the perfect place to understand of life works. Watching the cooking process, the transformation of things on the fire, the rules of the matching ingredients, the order of movements, are all ways to think about our life, the reason of our relationship with others, on the rules of our living. Cooking is a way to live better, because it reminds us the important things of life and because it trains us to a more regular and disciplined way oh thinking (and it consider also the creativity of the cook).
Cooking is not a minor practice, but it makes us more clever."

If Aristotele cooked, maybe he would have wrote much more.

[badly translated from an article on a newspaper]