Meaning of Cooking - Kaufmann, Jean-Claude (Commissioning Editor in Media and Cultural Studies and lecturer at University of Paris V Sorbonne)

In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree,' said Boswell, but no beast is a cook.