The art of cooking

Is cooking an art if you have no observers? And if you are the observer, does that count as being part of the cooking art? I love the art of cooking, as long as I am the one observing, maybe chopping an onion or two, so much I can do for art. Tonight I am seated on the first row of the Visa's art of cooking show, which, so far, is fantastic. I'm going to give him standing ovasions. Somehow that came out dirty.