Why is culinary considered an art and a science?

Culinary arts relates to art because cooking is an art on its own. Being able to the different techniques involved wise you are able to use a medium to express your self, the only difference between two is tedum.

who answered this before? well anyway, culinary arts actually means turning food into works of art, according to the display of culinary arts i saw at a tour of a college campus, tomatoes cut to look like roses, and so many other amazing works done with fruits and vegetables. you should look up culinary arts on google images or something, to see if i'm completely right, because i'm not sure if i'm right, but this answer is better than that first answer... what is a tedum?