The Art of Cuisine

We may live without poetry, music and art,
We may live without conscience, and live without heart.
We may live without friends, we may live without book.
But a civilized man cannot live without cooks

He may live without books, what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope, What is hope but grieving?
He may live without love, what is passion but pinning?
But where is the man that can live without dining?