Socrates: You set a high value on giving gratification; will yougratify me in a small matter?
Polus: By all means.
Socrates: Just ask me, will you, what sort of art I take cookeryto be.Polus: Very well; what sort of art is cookery?Socrates: It isn't an art at all, Polus.Polus: What is it then? Explain.Socrates: A kind of knack gained by experience, I should say.Polus: A knack of doing what, pray?Socrates: Producing gratification and pleasure, Polus.From Plato's "On Cookery."Plato did not rate the art of cooking very highly at all; it was tohim a form of flattery that merely tries to gratify and givepleasure, without investigating the nature of pleasure …
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