Dialogue

 1  Gorg|         reduced to the level of cookery, he replies that at any
 2  Gorg|        another question—What is cookery? ‘What is cookery?’ An experience
 3  Gorg|       What is cookery? ‘What is cookery?’ An experience or routine
 4  Gorg|        to be distinguished from cookery. ‘What is rhetoric?’ asks
 5  Gorg|        of gymnastic, the art of cookery, of medicine; rhetoric is
 6  Gorg|  formula:—~Tiring : gymnastic : cookery : medicine : sophistic :
 7  Gorg|   sophistic : legislation.~And,~Cookery : medicine : rhetoric :
 8  Gorg|          what sort of an art is cookery?~POLUS: What sort of an
 9  Gorg|          What sort of an art is cookery?~SOCRATES: Not an art at
10  Gorg|          Polus.~POLUS: Then are cookery and rhetoric the same?~SOCRATES:
11  Gorg|    other parts, one of which is cookery, which may seem to be an
12  Gorg|      the highest value to them. Cookery simulates the disguise of
13  Gorg|       argue in defence of them.~Cookery, then, I maintain to be
14  Gorg|         as tiring : gymnastic : cookery : medicine;~or rather,~as
15  Gorg| sophistry : legislation;~and~as cookery : medicine : rhetoric :
16  Gorg|        and discriminate between cookery and medicine, but the body
17  Gorg|    Chaos’ would come again, and cookery, health, and medicine would
18  Gorg|      relation to the soul, what cookery is to the body. I may have
19  Gorg|     evil. And I considered that cookery, which I do not call an
20  Gorg|       to Gorgias and Polus that cookery in my opinion is only an
21  Gorg|        and reason in each case, cookery in attending upon pleasure