It’s also worth noting that baked food is often starchy – bread, cakes and other high-energy foods. So baking is focused more on the on the desire for good, while other forms of cooking have other meanings.In a broad sense, there are two things we get from our food. One is energy, in the form of carbohydrates and fats. The other is building material – the proteins our bodies use to build new fibers, and the vitamins that help make our bodies function correctly. On a spiritual level, that energy represents a desire for good; the proteins and vitamins represent the ideas and concepts necessary to turn that desire into useful work.Fire, meanwhile, also represents desire, an emotional state of wanting something. This is easy to see in modern language: We might “burn” with passion or feel the “flame” of desire. This can obviously be good or bad depending on our desires, just as fire can be a powerful force for good and also one of the most destructive forces we know.Baking is a way of using the massive but unfocused energy of that fire to prepare food for the body. If we have a strong underlying drive to be good, we can use it to turn our ideas and good intentions into effective, well-planned action.

'Herb bearing seed,' as mentioned in Genesis 1:29, signifies truth in terms of its use. (Arcana Coelestia 57) Every herb in the Bible signifies some type of knowledge.

'Green herbs,' as mentioned in Genesis 1:30, mean food for the natural man.

'Eating the herb of the field,' as mentioned in Genesis 3:18, signifies that a person should live as a beast.

'Herb of the field' signifies spiritual truth.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 7626)