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Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 10:52:26 AM

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Okay, there seems to be a fairly smiple answer to this. We cook to have something to eat. Yeah, no. Not me.

i do not have a childhood mental file for happy thoughts related to food. If i got it as a kid, it wasn't any good, but that was all there was. So well before puberty i had taught myself to cook out of self defence. Later, food service would become my first taxable means of income. i cooked for money.

Then i learned a little more, i used food as another creative outlet. Food was art you could taste.

So i had a skill. Then there were all these people in my life that i cared for, and i wanted to use all these skills i had to make their lives better. i cooked for them. In my language i was saying " i like you being alive and i would like to take an active role in your continued existance " .

Why do you cook ?

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:02:36 AM

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Because I like healthy and very tasty food, and I enjoy cooking...

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:06:02 AM

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I don't really enjoy cooking but I enjoy eating, therefore I cook

I am a creative person but my creativity is not expressed through food.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:11:12 AM

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It's therapeutic for me, in a way. It's an art-form - taking all these various ingredients and blending them together to create a masterpiece. Cooking taps into so many senses: Touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. And the best part is sharing it with people I care about, and watching them enjoy it.

Kind of a spiritual experience.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:17:30 AM

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So I dont die from salmonella or e coli.

JK.

Good food enhances life, like good music or good wine, and cooking great food is relatively easy. (As opposed to being a great chef and actually creating what us cretins merely cook)

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:26:26 AM

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My mother was widowed at a young age when I was 6 and she had to work full-time. When I was around 10 years old I would make dinner since I was home early enough from school to start it before my mother got home. She would call me from work, give me instructions on what to do with the dinner ingredients and that's how I learned to cook - over the phone.

I resented having to take on this responsibility but because of it became a pretty amazing cook by the time I got out of high school. Later, I found that I could use these culinary skills to nurture good friends and the men with whom I was involved. It became an act of love and I started to appreciate the fact that I was given the responsibility of meal preparation as a child because I knew so much more about food and cooking than any of my contemporaries.

Through the years I've become very creative with preparing meals and desserts and have several notebooks of recipes I've created. I particularly like slow cooker cooking and have countless recipes, books and magazines pertaining to that style of cooking.

Cooking went from a chore I resented to a way I can express my creativity and love. I never really thought about that progression till now.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:27:33 AM

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I once started a thread called

The Kitchen and Food are Sexy!

As you said; it has to do with being creative,
being caring and being sensual.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:31:37 AM

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I think cooking is for girls. A girl that can't cook is 50% useless to me.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:35:47 AM

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ORIGINAL: Outlier2

I once started a thread called

The Kitchen and Food are Sexy!

As you said; it has to do with being creative,
being caring and being sensual.

This post reminded me of the movie, "Like Water for Chocolate (the Quail with Rose Petals particularly)".

I enjoy cooking, but don't work at it very much. Then when I want to cook to impress someone, I'm disappointed that it doesn't come out perfectly.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:51:26 AM

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Food equals life. When you feed someone, you are giving them the gift of life.

This is why women are cherished, they give food and children...... life.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 11:51:38 AM

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The science of cooking appeals to my inner nerd.. the art of plating appeals to my creative side and feeding someone appeals to my nurturing side. It's all good and I love to cook. :D

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:03:44 PM

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Food equals life. When you feed someone, you are giving them the gift of life.

This is why women are cherished, they give food and children...... life.

Hangs head in shame. This must be why I am not cherished, no kids and I cannot cook.

What is going to become of me?

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:20:37 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: sexyred1

quote:

ORIGINAL: areallivehuman

Food equals life. When you feed someone, you are giving them the gift of life.

This is why women are cherished, they give food and children...... life.

Hangs head in shame. This must be why I am not cherished, no kids and I cannot cook.

What is going to become of me?

Dont fret, you still take a licking :)

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:22:58 PM

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i've always been fascinated by food. When i was a kid i used to keep a journal of everything i ate. i always looked at the label to find out what food was made of, and try to imagine how they made it. We didn't have regular meals at home. My mom would buy muffins, peanut butter, and cereal in bulk, and that's pretty much all we ate. My parents had odd ideas about food, i think they thought it was sinful or something. Both my parents took pride in *not* eating. Growing up, we sometimes didn't have enough to eat. As a result, i guess i developed a preoccupation with food.

My first jobs were in fast food, working the register. i was shy and i hated how they always put girls on the register and guys in the kitchen. Finally, i found a job that trained me in the kitchen and i loved it. At that point food was an escape from doing work that i hated to doing work that i loved and was interested in. It represented work that i was good at. It suprised me to be good at something besides school. Food also represented a departure from the world of my parents, a world that i was particularly anxious to get away from at that point in my life.

When i started cooking from scratch, i realised that food is both an organic process and an art. I realised what makes food good or bad. When i started working for really good chefs, i found that food is a pursuit of perfection that's almost religious. Food is a way to work, and a way to live life.

But the more i see the flaws in the restaurant industry, the more i go back to the beginning, and start to see food through my parents eyes, as a frivilous waste of money and time, a distraction from what's important in life.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:33:58 PM

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I enjoy each step of the process and I love the end result!

I actually like going to the grocery store, coupons in hand or with the ads and seeing how good of food I can buy for how little, and then how it ends up when I sit down to eat.

I try to emulate what I eat in restaraunts or see on TV and then take it a step further,and I simply like my own cooking better than almost anyone elses.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:35:40 PM

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I cook cuz I got mojo and my food tastes pretty great. I eat mostly organic. I think it is tragic how much crap they douse our food in, making it a big to-do to eat healthy food. I love to make spicy food too. I get cravings and then make a batch of whatever I am craving. I am thinking spaghetti and meatballs soon.

My sister is not as domestic as I so I often share and pack up some food for her. I also bake sometimes. Not everyone bakes, I know how nice it is to get some home baking. I am certainly not the first or last person to say I believe that love is the most important ingredient.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:39:21 PM

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I will let the eloquence of others speak for me. . .

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze

Because I like healthy and very tasty food, and I enjoy cooking...

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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

It's therapeutic for me, in a way. It's an art-form - taking all these various ingredients and blending them together to create a masterpiece. Cooking taps into so many senses: Touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. And the best part is sharing it with people I care about, and watching them enjoy it.

Kind of a spiritual experience.

quote:

ORIGINAL: areallivehuman

Food equals life. When you feed someone, you are giving them the gift of life.

This is why women are cherished, they give food and children...... life.

quote:

ORIGINAL: SilverMark

I enjoy each step of the process and I love the end result!

I actually like going to the grocery store, coupons in hand or with the ads and seeing how good of food I can buy for how little, and then how it ends up when I sit down to eat.

I try to emulate what I eat in restaraunts or see on TV and then take it a step further,and I simply like my own cooking better than almost anyone elses.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:42:29 PM

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Hangs head in shame. This must be why I am not cherished, no kids and I cannot cook.

What is going to become of me?

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Didn't intend any negativity. What a person does with their life is a choice, we make our choices and live with the consequences. I regret not having kids sometimes, but I am sure you could be taught to be a great cook in a few hours.

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 12:50:31 PM

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I cook because my pop can't and my mom said no way were we (my bro and I) going to put anybody else in the position she's in- of having to cook constantly. (My pop isn't crazy about leftovers.) Given how much my mom kvetched about having to cook I figured it'd be a good way to meet girls. I began working on desserts in grad school because I got tired of Dunkin' Donuts at meetings or stale cookies.

What I've discovered-

1) The reason more men don't cook is that it doesn't work for getting dates. (If a guy says he cooks and gets a lot of dates- it's not because of his skills in the kitchen.)
2) However, if you're dating someone, cooking is a nice skill to have in a relationship- you don't have to go out constantly, makes meeting friends easier if you can bring something to a party.
3) At parties, being the designated cook/cleanup guy also doesn't get you dates, but I also find it preferable to being a wallflower.

These days I only cook if I have company- I do stuff like omelets if I'm eating alone. However, I like to cook. The only time it gets aggravating is when you've got to make the same thing over and over again because of parties or it's expected. I make a chocolate decadence that I've gotten pretty tired of- but it travels better than anything else and people like it.

I like tweaking recipes- finding something out there and taking a crack at it. Often I figure something can be improved, so I find this challenging and fun. Plus I like working with my hands- whether it's cooking, giving a massage, or building a model airplane. (Turns out that the guys who like to build their own airplanes also like to cook.)

So if you're a woman out there and wondering why more guys don't cook- simple- you need to date us. And I'm comfy enough cooking not to sweat whether or not my s.o. also cooks. Hint- hint, Red....

Cheers,

Sam

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RE: Why we cook... - 5/14/2011 1:10:55 PM

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I like tweaking recipes- finding something out there and taking a crack at it. Often I figure something can be improved, so I find this challenging and fun.

Me too! The Mister is always laughing at me because when I'm off to try something new, I Google a ton of recipes and then put together my own concoction, combining what I liked about each recipe and how I think it will go together. I never follow just one recipe, it's always a "variation on a theme" so to speak.

We joke around because he'll come up with some obscure dish and say "I'm in the mood for ____ today" and off I go, figuring out how to make it, researching different recipes, getting ideas from others, etc. He says we're going to have a "Chopped" weekend, where I show up and there's a bunch of secret recipes in a basket, and I'll have to make something delicious out of it. I'm up for the challenge! He says if I get "chopped" he'll make me eat Taco Bell...

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