Everything has a smell. I'd like to believe some things don't smell, but they do. All food rots.* There is no preservative that allows food to retain its value as food perfectly, nor do I believe there is a perfect version of any food. But I know that the ingredients we have is the ingredients we have.* There may be more ingredients and ways to combine things that we currently think of as food, yet it's also possible that this is it and what you find in the supermarket is all there is.* I honestly don't know. Someday I'll cook every recipe I ever read. There's other cooks of course.* They make foods too and I really dont HAVE to cook, but what if I have to cook for myself?* I should learn. I can cook very quickly and efficiently, using as many or as few ingredients as necessary.* I don't even make a mess in the kitchen and I clean up after myself when I do. But I'm not worried. There will always be SOMETHING to eat, even if it's not what I want. Of course I'd LOVE to be able to cook what pre-literate people who lived before Hieroglyphics but since they didn't write it down, I don't have a copy. But their recipes aren't LOST; since we have the same raw ingredients, more or less that they did, we can eat what they ate, or at least something close to it. We have imagination, which is strong enough for us to imagine what they MIGHT have eaten and make foods based on that.* Imagination is the closest thing to authentic pre-literate human cooking as we can get.