Thank you so much for your comment. I believe both activities include research, experimenting, and observation, as well as the reflection of our personal, which is the artistic side. I appreciate the way in which you describe how inseparable our emotions and our reasoning in teaching are.

Thank you so much for your comment. I am also very thankful for your contribution to this analogy by the connection you make through this very useful distinction between knowledgeable and knowledge(able) in teaching. Being a cook may be part of everyday life, but becoming a chef is taking up a challenge of dealing with the cuisine itself, as well.

Thank you very much for your comment and pinpointing the mastery aspect of the teaching. We all are fundamentally cooks, but what makes us chefs is the extra ordinary training we went through in running a kitchen and creating a signature dish to enhance our cuisine.

Thank you very much for your comment. One of the main points I wanted to make was the unique nature of learning and tasting. I am so happy that this analogy grows by the contributions of the commentators like you. Thank you as well.

Thank you very much for your comment. A buffet! There you go. You can shape the feeling and the taste of your very own experience through this analogy. The aspect of satisfaction, the experimental, social and affective nature that helps the students to digest the information better.

Thank you very much for your comment. I liked how you underline the similarity between appetite and intellectual interest. I believe that such framing, which address the everyday aspect of both of these actions help to move beyond the characterized and simplified understanding of the experience of learning/teaching.

Thank you very much for your comment. I also believe that the most fundamental point in both cooking and teaching is their experimental nature. I want my students to be able to shape their own opinion about what we have discussed in the classroom and present it to her/his audience to keep the experiment going. This is the way we are able to create things that are unique, whose value is to be assessed by further experiments.

Thank you so much for your comment. This is exactly the point I wanted to make by writing on this metaphor. Cooking is so much embedded in our daily life and the way we socialize. In addition, the concrete nature of the labor we put into cooking makes it easier to talk about an abstract issue such as thinking, learning, and teaching.