Eating is the secret to good cooking.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.