From my perspective separating the food and cooking work from other types of work is reactionary and is based on a the perception of it as women's work. I think all work for the benefit of the community should be valued equally. If not enough people want to cook, I question the value of eating together. Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living by Jerome M. Segal. A diamond has a very high exchange value but less use value.
Cooking has very high use value but less exchange value.
No one ever pays as much to a good cook as for a diamond. And this is not just because it is a service with a disappearing product. Much of the use value of cooking is not recognized outside the home because it never enters the market place to be measured in value terms. It happens without being measured. It just is.