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Cook: A good poet differs nothing at all from a master-cook. Either art’s the wisdom of the mind.
Poet: As how, sir?
Cook: I am by my place to know how to please the palates of the guests; so, you are to know the palate of the times, study the several tastes, what every nation, the Spaniard, the Dutch, the Walloon, the Neapolitan, the Briton, the Sicilian can expect from you.... For there’s a palate of the understanding as well as of the senses. The taste is taken with good relishes, the sight with fair objects, the hearing with delicate sounds, the smelling with pure scents, the feeling with soft and plump bodies, but the understanding with all these, for all which you must begin at the kitchen. There the art of poetry was learned and found out, or nowhere, on the same day with the art of cookery.

—Ben Jonson, Neptune’s Triumph for the Return of Albion