"Cooking? No. I had campaigns to plan and a kingdom to run. It would have been good to learn such a skill but I knew that my talents were best directed towards other matters."

Sitting down, he got out the meat he'd brought with him and started to cut it into chunks, setting it back in what it had been wrapped in as he went. That seemed the easiest thing for them to do. Though he was wondering what salted meat would be like in this soup. Perhaps it would add delicious flavor to it!

"A man can seek to learn a great many tasks and perfect none or he can learn a few and master them better than others. I chose the latter."