Creativity in Cooking

You have to have creativity in order to cook... If you have no creativity then your center pieces on your table, or the plating of your food is just going to look like crap...  When you can look at a bunch of different food and plate it in a way that looks amazing... That's creativity, you came up with it by using your brain.  There are people making radish roses, swans out of apples, all sorts of crazy things out of FOOD!  I mean you go to a bakery shop and look at all the different designs, someone seen that design and came up with it.  Everyone is just amazing because of the things they can come up with themselves.  I think that when someone can just look at a bunch of different food and just plop the food in a arrangement where it looks amazing... That's talent! And it's like people are all oh cooking is nothing, cooking is so easy anyone can do it! It's not, it's hard work and it takes a lot of time.  Your standing above a hot stove and waiting for your dish to turn out, there is always a chance you messed up and it's not going to come out right.  You go back and forth getting dishes out of the way, getting ingredients, something that you forgot.  But in the end you have your dish and you design it however you want, you completely control it and nobody else.  It signifies who you are as a person because it came out of your mind and the way you seen it.  There are inspirational designs that are made by creativity.  Someones creativity is going on a day that someone won't forget.  Your creativity can wow so many people and you don't even realize what is at stake.  Walmart workers who decorate the cakes, they have a map showing them how it goes but the person who came up with the design, they are part of every single persons birthday or wedding unless someone makes the cakes.  My grandma made my first birthday cake and it was a bunny cake... I've learned how to do it too and it's so easy and cute.  You use two circle pans and candy to create a bunny with a bow tie.  My best friend and I created a pizza cookie out of just boredom, we wanted to cook so we found sugar cookie mix, made it then put caramel on the bottom, took white almond bark and used a fork to make it look like shredded cheese and then used chocolate chips as olives, it was the best thing EVER.  We didn't look up any ideas we just found ingredients plopped all of them together and BANG it was awesome.  We also discovered you can use a easy bake oven with REAL cake mix... We made little tiny cakes and I made mine look awesome by just frosting it over with chocolate frosting and making little lines and it was just awesome.  I think that when you begin thinking creatively it's a huge impact on the world because nobody else came up with it before you and you just made a part of everyone's day.  The people on cooking shows are just hired and if you watch their faces when they eat what they just created... They have this disgusted face and are like mmm... so good... and smile at the camera after that it usually goes to a commercial they probably go off and spit it out.