COOKING – the definition as per Wikipedia is ‘the process of preparing food with heat’. For most of us this sounds as the most logical meaning and makes sense…
May be I am sounding too defensive; coz cooking occupies a very special place in my life. For me COOKING has a much deeper meaning..My name may not go down history as one of the best chefs, neither am I a cook book author nor do I boast to have invented many recipes...But when I cook, I do as if it matters the world to me. Each time I cook, I do it with all my love.I cook for anyone and everyone with the same zeal.
But isn’t it too bland a definition??
How can you possibly sum up one of the most gorgeous thing in just a few words with such deficit of taste in them??
Is it only the heat, the method and the presentation that matters?
May be I am sounding too defensive; coz cooking occupies a very special place in my life. For me COOKING has a much deeper meaning..My name may not go down history as one of the best chefs, neither am I a cook book author nor do I boast to have invented many recipes...But when I cook, I do as if it matters the world to me. Each time I cook, I do it with all my love.I cook for anyone and everyone with the same zeal.
For me the 'Kitchen' is not a mere space with racks and stacks, oven and microwave, burners and vessels……It’s a place where I find my peace….Ask anyone who knows me!!
I never cook coz I have nothing else to do…I never cook coz ‘I have to’..I cook coz I want to..That adds to the things I cook!! You can see my passion n love for cooking, only while I cook.
Starting from chopping till I go on to mixing,
from stirring to the occasional checking of the flavors turning in,
from serving till you eat it,
I will be the same enthusiast.
I cook to unwind. I cook to make someone smile after he/she eats my food. I cook not to kill anyone’s hunger but to make a completely satiated person want to grab a bite. I cook so that when he enters my house, the aromas should take him with a pleasant surprise. I cook to make an absolutely dull day end with perfect flavors. Cooking is one of the things that bring out the best in me…!!
I cook anytime…
- Even when I get up so early in the morning (which I normally never do)
- When am down with fever
- Times when I am feeling dull
- Though I am tired with hours of travel
- With lots of other things in my agenda and I am too busy
All with the same gusto!!
I love most songs of Michael Jackson, but 'Remember the time' is one which I wouldn't listen to while I am cooking…Not that I am no good at quick-cooking, but I love when I have time in hands, coz that’s what gives me the bliss of cooking.
In my life, I have never been what you call ‘patient’, not for exams, not while I drive on busy roads, never for meetings or anything...But with cooking, I become the most tolerant and you can bet that agitation is miles away from me. I cook with no worries or rush…When I cook it has to be just right, exactly the way I would have pictured it to be, the way I would have dreamt it to look n taste!! I can take no less that ‘perfection’, else I would never be pleased. And so, somehow cooking will lose its meaning for me n will never be the same for me again!!
Kitchen is the next best place for me in the house (now plz stop wondering about ‘the favorite place’…..).
