You may like to design clothes,
and you may also like to sing. I do too, but my love for cooking is more
than these. I cook when I have trouble, when I do not want to face a bad truth, when I am in a bad mood, or when I need to think about a dilemma. I stay in my kitchen, chop ahead of a garlic, or wash a
cucumber, and think about
what happened . That way, I can face the truth in an indirect way. I
also can solve my problem, or make a hard choice that I will not regret,
and when I feel lonely, like Laurie Colwin said on Goodreaders
website , “No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most
solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks
past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook
writers.” I will not be alone when tomatoes peppers, onions, and carrots
are around me.
I love to cook because this is a
way to show my love. “There is no spectacle on earth more appealing
than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for
someone she loves”, said Thomas Wolfe. The shortest way to a man's
heart is through his belly. I love to cook for my love. I want to give the
best in the world to him, and make sure that he will not get sick by
what he eats. Also, I love to cook for my family, and this is the
sweetest action to show my love and my respect to my parents. My
brother likes my chicken baked with onion, ginger ,and lemongrass. My
boyfriend likes everything I cook. My best friend loves my rice
paper mix. Nothing makes me happier than seeing people around me eat
my food and say “ t is so delicious , Nica.”
Cooking helps me to learn .
Learning how to cook taught me how to become a good wife, how to be a
good boss of my kitchen, about differences in food between countries,
and about English too. When I first started, I felt so scared and nervous
. I could not fry an egg with hot oil, the most easy recipe in the
world, but I could not do it because I worried the hot oil would burn
my hand. But after a time, I learned more, and could control
everything. I made it work for me. I learned , “ turn the gas low
when you put a chicken in, and make sure that everything is dried before
you put in a hot oil.” Beyond that , I also learned about "kimpap and sushi". These are spring rolls in my country, but Kimpap comes from Korea and " sushi" comes from Japan. Cooking could improve my English skills, I
know more vocabulary about food, like lemongrass , ginger, chive,
tofu , and gold fish, seaweed.
Cooking develops my
creativity. By not following every step or recipe to cook a soup, I
can create a new soup , and rename it by my name , or make it
suitable to my family's taste. The rule is, there is not only one way
to cook a dish. People can take a short cut to get to a destination . As when you follow a recipe to bake a chicken,you need one hour to bake it, but when it is
done , the chicken will be firm as a rock. However, if you boil a chicken first,
and then bake it, the chicken will be tender ,more delicious, and
cook faster .A chef will not be successful if the food he or she cooks
does not fit with a diner's taste. I can make a delicious spaghetti
by following a formula, but my family will not eat it. I can use my
creativeness to add some salt or draw out some cheese to make a food
fit with my family's taste. 
