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Cordwainers are not cobblers - to say that is a load of old cobbles.

A distinction preserved by cordwainers since the earliest times is, that a cordwainer works only with new leather, whereas a cobbler works with old. Cobblers have always been repairers, frequently prohibited by law from making shoes.

Though cobblers do work with 'eels and nails, too. Has Hugh ever cooked an Eel Cobbler?