You can have a bad soldier in uniform.
The true cook must have not only those externals, but a large dose of
general worldly experience. He is the perfect blend, the only perfect
blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his
palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
That is why you will never obtain adequate human nourishment from a
young girl or boy. Such persons may do for housework, but not in the
kitchen. Never in the kitchen! No one can aspire to be a philosopher
who is in an incomplete state of physical development. The true cook
must be mature; she must know the world form her social point of view,
however humble it be; she must have pondered concerning good and evil,
in however lowly and incongruous a fashion; she must have passed
through the crucible of sin and suffering or, at the very least--it is
often the same thing--of married life. Best of all, she should have a
lover, a fierce and brutal lover who beats and caresses her in turns;
for every woman worthy of the name is subject and entitled to
fluctuating psychic needs--needs which must be satisfied to the very
core, if the master is to enjoy sound, healthy fare.
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