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i don't understand the argument above that cooking is not and cannot be an art.
it seems motivated by some associations that are piled onto the word "art" more than anything else. and one of the main associations is that art is somehow a sham. which sits in a very strange relation to notions of praxis from marx---transformation of objects from nature into the socially meaningful through the expenditure of labor, and the transformation of oneself in the process.
seems to me that cooking is among the most democratic of the arts, really, in that most anyone can produce artful food with adequate attention and patience and a certain skill set that is simple enough to acquire practically. and if one is inclined to produce delicate or layered dishes, why not?
it seems to me fundamentally different from cleaning. what is the basis for the comparison? that they're both domestic activities?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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