my co-workers and i had a discussion about whether or not you make food or if you cook food. apparently there is a difference between making food and cooking food.

when you make food, you are just preparing the food to eat. there is no thought about how the items will come together and there’s more of a methodical way in which you make food.

when you cook food, there’s thought behind how it all gels together. there’s a synergy of food that lends itself to a meal. there’s a deeper understanding of how ingredients blend into each other to create a meal greater than itself. indeed, to cook food is more than the preparation of food, there’s a natural instinct to cooking the food.

so this means that there are three levels of food preparers. the food makers, the food cookers, and chefs. chefs are another level of food preparers that elevate cooking to an art form.

my co-workers said that they think that i’m somewhere between a cooker and a chef. i thought that i was somewhere between a maker and a cooker. there are a lot of foods that i have no idea what to do with.

what are you?