I completely relate. I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, and I'm still amazed by so many things. Especially bread. Who the hell thought to mix yeast with water and flower and let it rise? How did they know it would rise?

If you look at the history of food, you find that a lot of specific recipes came to be through mistakes. Like the Bakewell Tart, where the cook misunderstood the instructions and put jam inside the tart instead of over it. Or potato puffs, which are basically chips gone wrong (deliciously wrong). But the origins of the basic recipe concept (such as the concept of the pie itself) remains a mystery.