Thank you so much! I had to have a food beta reader as I can't cook to save my life. *g* I could see Snape being satisfied if not happy exactly as a chef, terrorizing a staff of busy squibs while he was brilliant with the spices. And I liked the perverse domesticity of it, the two of them chopping vegetables while Harry was discussing his life falling apart. I was afraid that if I packed in too much backstory or tried to write it in real time, it would be so dark that it would overwhelm the romance!