What's the Difference Between Writing and Cooking?

"Food is about the senses and I'm trying to wake up your senses," she says. "I have to remember how I felt when I was either cooking something or when I was eating something [and] when I encountered something for the first time" She writes it in her head, whereas other writers do it mostly in their body. Her favorite quote: "Prose is like hair, it shines with combing."