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For me, what sparked my interest in cooking was two things: (1) getting older (in youth, food was simply fuel, not so much to be enjoyed), (2) wanting to replicate favourites dishes from restaurants (my first first was channa masala). You can learn a lot from middle-aged house wives that have a YouTube cooking channel that show you how to cook classic dishes from various cultures. One thing that has been incredibly liberating is making small tweaks to recipes that will trigger a cultural native to immediately declare: "Oh, that's not authentic." To that I say: "Who cares, it is my food, and I will enjoy it!" |
