a cook is also a teacher of cooking. I think this job is probably an old job. Human culture began with diet, and the original Oracle Bone Inscriptions reflected human diet life.
in the early Shang dynasty, Yi Yin went from being a cook to being a butcher, and reached heaven in one step. People don't talk much about Yi Yin's achievements, but they often talk about Yi Yin's cooking, calling him a cooking sage, as if he were the "prime minister of cooking".
From the Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, chefs had various aliases: Bubbler, Chef, Orc, Fisherman, Wine Man, Slurry Man, Waxy Man, Turtle Man, Salt Man and Chicken Man. These names are also appropriate. Those who cook animals are orcs, those who cook turtles are turtles, and those who cook chickens are chickens. However, at that time, I didn't know how to eat shark's fin, abalone and sea cucumber, otherwise the names of winged man, abalone man and ginseng man would appear again.
Throughout the ancient food array, there are eight "military forces": imperial chef, official chef, four chef, home chef, temple chef, ship chef, military chef and prostitute chef. Every "military force" has several branches. For example, the ancient military camp was also called the military chef as the cook, the cook, the fireman and the rotor army; In religious temples, temple chefs are also called monk chefs, Taoist chefs, rice heads and vegetable heads; Among the chefs, the chef's alias is the most elegant, which is called the authority, the head, the case, the teacher, and the wine doctor.
Since ancient times, people have different opinions about chefs: those who praise them call them heavenly chefs, Ding Yi's family, food generals and seasoning masters; The disparagers call it a slave, a child under the kitchen, a child under the stove, and a greasy head. It is roughly estimated that there are as many as 121 kinds of nicknames for chefs, which can be described as the first in all industries!