“I think you'd be a naturally more talented eater. I think you can learn, particularly through childhood, to really appreciate taste and to learn what good is. Cooking is kind of a skill, but there has to be something really wrong with you if you can't learn how to do it.”
The Go To Food Podcast · Food & Beverage · October 2026
The host asks whether some people are naturally more talented cooks than others. Kenedy says no. For him the mechanics are basic, and what matters is learning to tell good from great, which he thinks is learned and not inherited.
Transcript
So I did. And I came for six months the first time. I was kind of young and I stayed with her in her house, which was probably a bit weird for her. We became very close friends. And then the second and third time I went out, I went for longer periods. Beautiful. Do you
think you can be a naturally more talented cook than other people? No,
I think you'd be a naturally more talented eater. I think you can learn, particularly through childhood, to really appreciate taste and to learn what good is. Cooking is kind of a skill, but there has to be something really wrong with you if you can't learn how to do it. How to put a pan or how to put salt on something and put it in the pan. It's quite mechanical and basic. But learning what the difference is between good and not good or between great and okay, I think that's not genetic, it's learned. It's a learnt
thing. I think it's
a learnt thing. Because there are people who
claim that anyone can sing or anyone can play an instrument. And I'm sitting here as living proof that that's not true. Do you think anyone can do it? I'm
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