5 - Paint your Food

Cooking is an art. 

Adobo, mechado, and menudo down to bicol express, laing, sinigang and tinola. Desserts? Cakes in all flavors, ice cream, pastries and kakanin… Who doesn’t love to eat those? Or basically, who doesn’t love food? All of us know that food is important. It is the basic need of a certain family. It is the obsession of every one of us. So when someone cooks, everyone spins their butts finishing a certain dish. But do we know that besides cooking will outcome to a delicious food, it also result to an art?

            Yes, you’ve heard it. Cooking is an art. It expresses emotions and feelings. Every food that a chef or cook does have its meaning...  Every taste has its inside story. Cooking requires creativity and imagination. Because good cooking calls for imagination, a well-developed creative sense, and the ability to express yourself in the product you’re doing.  If you look at the creative part of cooking where either an individual chooses a selection of ingredients or cooking methods to create a desired end result, it is more of an art. This is similar to the artist using paint color and technique to create a painting or a writer doing the same with words and grammar. Both the painter and the writer are using tools to *create* not recreate and the result is subjectively successful - the great chefs, painters and writers are deemed to be great because they create something others love and admire.

When you cut the tomatoes it just the same when you fixative the red paint…

When you stir the milk, it just the same as you mix the color…

When you mold the dough, it just the same as you morphed clay... 

When you garnish the plate, it just the same as you add final touch on your painting. 

Art isn't all about painting and music sometimes in cooking too. Cooking reflects the person behind it. It tells a story. Good cooking takes you to heaven or any place that you call heaven for that matter. To conclude, cooking is something that cannot be learnt. Like art, the qualities of a cook must be ingrained in a person. But, that does not mean that you cannot learn a few scrumptious dishes. So go give it a try, and yes cooking is an art.