Believe it or not, the two different types of cooks are mentioned in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Both cooks are women, both are slaves, both have decent masters.(1) The one in Kentucky keeps all her supplies and equipment in specified locations and measures amounts, cooking times, and cooking temperatures with care. The cook in New Orleans stashes everything wherever she happens to be at the moment and throws ingredients into the cooking vessels apparently at random. Both women produce excellent meals.
(1) – Harriet Beecher Stowe wished to emphasize that even the kindest, most humane slave ownership imaginable could lead to horror. Uncle Tom’s first owner needs to sell his hardest working, most loyal manservant “down the river” to pay his debts after a bad year. His second owner, wealthy, indigent, and good natured, dies unexpectedly and Tom dies at the hand of the villainous Simon Legree.
In Canada’s (and Alaska’s) North Boreal Forest, there is a repeating cycle — arctic hares multiply until they are all over the place. Lynx multiply to hunt them. When the hare population has been decimated, the lynx starve. When the lynx are rare, arctic hares multiply.
This happens on a regular cycle but I no longer remember how many years it takes — it is under ten.
Believe it or not, the two different types of cooks are mentioned in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Both cooks are women, both are slaves, both have decent masters.(1) The one in Kentucky keeps all her supplies and equipment in specified locations and measures amounts, cooking times, and cooking temperatures with care. The cook in New Orleans stashes everything wherever she happens to be at the moment and throws ingredients into the cooking vessels apparently at random. Both women produce excellent meals.
(1) – Harriet Beecher Stowe wished to emphasize that even the kindest, most humane slave ownership imaginable could lead to horror. Uncle Tom’s first owner needs to sell his hardest working, most loyal manservant “down the river” to pay his debts after a bad year. His second owner, wealthy, indigent, and good natured, dies unexpectedly and Tom dies at the hand of the villainous Simon Legree.