Starter course

So, here I go with a blog about cooking. I love writing and I love cooking, so it seems to make sense to combine the two.

Cooking is one of the things I enjoy doing the most. Although on average I cook for about an hour a day, there are many days when I don't cook at all, just as there are lots of occasions when I spend luxurious amounts of time in the kitchen creating things. Cooking for me is about receiving and giving joy, about home, about comfort. About family and friends, about love and nurturing. Cooking can both bring back memories and create them. It defines the time of day, the time of year, the time of life.

This blog will help me record the way I cook - the things I get right and the things I get wrong. It will stop me from repeating my mistakes and from losing the ability to recreate those dishes that hit the mark. And it will also say a thing or two about the life of a foreign food lover in Manhattan.

If anyone else reads this and gets some pleasure, then all the better.