No, it's not the Master of Lake-Town. You have now the advantage that you read the whole Hobbit now, so you have enough information to decide if the answer can be found in the Hobbit or not.
As I said, you can find these exact words in the book where it is located (about cooking, and about being caught and eaten).
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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