I don't wish to determine whither cooking is an art or craft. IT IS BOTH! Not either /or, this or that. Come on people! Where is the logic in it? It's like going to an art gallery and stairing at a 500 year old painting and determine what they were trying to say when they would stroke they're brush. Cooking is was what it is; sexual by design, sinful by taste, a learning experience, a comfort and a birth of reasoning.