My fascination with cooking began as a child watching both my grandmothers cook. They would spend hours in the kitchen preparing meals from scratch. Processed food was not a staple in our house. No hotdogs there. Everything was made fresh and sourced from the local wet market. What struck me with their way of cooking was that apart from making it seem so easy, they did it out of love for the family. And you can somehow taste that in the meals they prepared.
I am a self-taught cook. I only learned the basics of cooking in our Home Economics class in high school. But I didn’t really have a chance to cook at home, as my grandmothers had command of the kitchen.
It was onl…
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