 What does the narrator seem to think makes a good cook on a spacer?
The Ship's Cook, the man who accomplishes the daily miracle of turning offal into eatables, is in many ways the most vital man aboard a spacer. Cooking aboard a spacer is a job combining the more frustrating tensions of biochemistry, applied mycology, high-speed farming, dietetics and sewage engineering. It's the Cook's responsibility to see that each man aboard gets each day no less than five pounds of water, two pounds of oxygen, and one-and-a-half pounds of dry food. "You are a spacer and a Ship's Cook, not a suburban Hausfrau with the vapors," Winkelmann said.
 They are willing to be creative in addition to an attention to detail
 Someone who can get food out as fast and as consistently as possible  They can bring people together in conversations about food  They are willing to be creative in addition to an attention to detail  They are able to make meals to help the crewmates lose weight