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The Art of Culinary Discovery: 9 Reasons to Embark on a Cooking Journey
Expanding your culinary mind will give you countless benefits you never thought would be possible.
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Our food and our cooking are things that are important to us for countless reasons. When we were growing up, we were fed so we could get nutrition. We needed food so we could become bigger and stronger.
As we were eating whatever food at some point we watched someone cooking. It could’ve been your mom fixing something simple. Your sibling putting something into the microwave.
You might have been out somewhere and remember seeing that person packing up something at the grocery. Maybe you were at a friend's house and saw their parent making something you had never seen at your house.
As time went along, we might have decided that it was time to try and cook something new for ourselves. I know when I first was living on my own, I started to try and cook a lot of different things. I would cook with my mom whenever we would get a chance to spend time with each other. When I was growing up with my grandparents, being able to cook in the house was always a challenge. That wasn’t the environment to try out new things.
Mainly, my grandmother wanted to know what you were doing and make sure you weren’t screwing anything up because she made it seem as if it was going to cause a problem for her somehow later on. This relegated me to using the microwave to heat food. A time here or there, I might get by with turning on the oven and putting something in there.
Depending on your life, deciding to try something new could happen for a lot of different reasons. You were watching something and thought it would be good to try. You went on a trip and had something great.
A while ago, I wondered why should we learn to cook something. Why do we spend time reading blogs, checking out cookbooks from the library, or in my case instead of reading current event stories in the Washington Post, I go directly to the food section and see what interesting things they are writing about there.
