"There's a strong taboo around using our own milk for anyone but our own children. It's something to do with sex, probably." Saturday shrugs. "Human mothers can't always make enough to feed their children, or sometimes the baby has trouble feeding. Mixing together milk from other animals can keep them alive when something like that happens. It's another one of those deep history things, you know? Over the course of our entire history, having animals to supply extra milk has been a very important reason we survived."

She pours the handmade dressing into its squirt bottle - the sheer savagery of this place, culinarily speaking, is appaling and starts on the next one.

"So this is gonna be the oil-based dressing. You're gonna find that compared the cream one, it has a much lighter taste. Since the cream dressing usesd a savory cheese I'm going to use a sweet fruit for this dressing."

She offers him a bright red, bulbous fruit about the size of her thumb. "This is a raspberry. Give it a taste. Think about how it's different from the cheese, and you'll start to understand the difference between a sweet flavor and a savory flavor. And understanding flavors is the essence of cooking."