What to Cook Next?

You open the door to your home and it hits you, a heavenly smell of fragrant spices penetrates your sinuses and wraps you in a state of euphoric happiness. You breath in deeply, “Ah! What’s cooking?”.

No matter how you choose to do it, roasting, baking, boiling, frying, or smoking, cooking is about more than just heating up food. Cooking is a doorway to life, family, and culture. Cooking nourishes the body allowing us to have energy fueling us through every moment of our day enabling us to move and think. Cooking  brings people together to bond and often times celebrate. It allows us to spend time with those we care most about at the dinner table, parties, and holiday festivities. Taking a small amount of precious time to get to know our loved one better. Cooking reveals attitudes, practices, and rituals of our beliefs from around the world. Whether cultural or just personal every person has traditions all their own surrounding cooking methods and practices.

We can not live without food, but it goes beyond survival it is a source of comfort, pleasure, and security. Smells and tastes conjure up nostalgic memories of holidays, birthday parties, and reunions with those we treasure most. Cooking is a symbol of hospitality, and can define social status and religious significance. What we choose to eat, how we cook and serve food are all elements touched by our own individual cultural inheritance. Increasing awareness of cooking traditions and the countless ways foods are prepared and eaten around the world has enriched our food horizons.

Cooking gives a sense of pride and accomplishment. Finishing a fantastic looking dish, smelling the wonderful aromas that fill your kitchen. Sharing the gift of the cooking that we offer to other so carefully crafted by our own hands. Seeing the looks of pure bliss on the faces of those you love as they eagerly gobble up your offerings with a resounding “Mmmmm!”. So cook up something special today. So the big question is…what to cook next?

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