[masraum]

"good cook" yeah, I think someone that can follow recipes and they come out tasty and how they should is a good "cook".

I think what you may be alluding to are folks that might better be called chefs or maybe some other sort of "food creator". Folks that can make new stuff or that look at a pile of ingredients, and think, "I can make a tasty meal by combining those things."

We took a 2 week tour on the Amazon river ~10 years ago. It was 2 weeks on a boat with minimal restocking. We had a huge spread of food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I often noticed that dinner would use left overs from lunch to make completely new dishes. The woman that did the food preparation was, in my opinion, a wizard. I may not have gone back for seconds for everything that she cooked, but everything that she made was at a minimum good and most of what she made was excellent. I suspect she had plans, but was also ad-libbing her azz off, and doing an amazing job of it.