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Discipline.
He made the preparation for supper with such easy speed that everything seemed to be done by magic hands.

When Joan's mother cooked supper there was always much rattling of the stove, then the building of the fire, a long preparation of food, and another interval when things steamed and sizzled on the fire.

There followed the setting of the table, and then a long, aching time of hunger when the food was in sight, but one could not eat until Daddy Dan had done this, and Munner had done that.

Also, when one did eat, half the taste was taken from things by the necessity of various complicated evolutions of knife and fork.