A history of cooks and cooking / Michael Symons.

pt. 1. What do cooks do?
Distributing goodness
A good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion
An empire of smoke
What do cooks do?
On the physical and political consequences of sauces
Slices of life
Festivals, beauty and love
pt. 2. Sharing and civilisation
The pudding that took a thousand people to make
Eve and Adam
The settled hearth
The temple as kitchen
Sovereign consumers
The sons of Mama Camous
Freedom from cooks?
Angels must eat.