What writing can learn from cooking

This metaphor feels rather cliche, I'm not sure if it will provide very useful techniques for writing, but certainly worth a try.

Know what tastes good by eating good food (reading)

Gathering ingredients

Know your ingredients

Know your spices

Know your tools

• Where's your knife for chopping an idea into smaller bits?
• How do you chop an idea?

Blenders?

• Mixing everything together, what would this look like?

Eggs hold things together