Cooking As It Were Its Special Dish

Each volcano is an independent machine---nay, each vent and monticule is for the time being engaged in its own peculiar business, cooking as it were its special dish, which in due time is to be separately served. We have instances of vents within hailing distance of each other pouring out totally different kinds of lava, neither sympathizing with the other in any discernible manner
nor influencing others in any appreciable degree.
--Clarence Dutton
Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah

a forty year old Uncle John's Band ...5/19/77