Cooking as a Hobby Essay

onwards, I wanted to work in the sciences, especially as it related to food and chemistry. My teachers nurtured my scientific curiosity by encouraging me to experiment and gather data in order to draw my own conclusions. This carried over into my cooking hobby—later as an interest in health-focused nutrition. For example, I remember waking up early on Saturday mornings to pull out my mother’s recipe book and examine the ingredients for pancakes or cookies. Occasionally I would twist recipes by…

Natural grains are indigestible she explained, they must be “threshed, ground, and cooked to make them edible” (quoted in Faigley 271). The threshing, grinding, and cooking are all processes that consumers today do not have to worry about. Grains in bread, pastas, and even oatmeal are processed and made safe before they hit supermarket shelves. The development of refining and genetically altering these items made them…

with people. I like to spend time with people but not always. I prefer to be alone when I want to take decisions or when I am in deep thinking. The hobbies mentioned for ENFJs are organizing social events, reading, arts, museums, storytelling, listening to music, writing, and gourmet cooking. From the hobbies mentioned above art, listening music and cooking are of my…

It’s Just Cooking Things with a Hint of Love ALEXIS: A life without iPhones, laptops, or maybe even the television. Life in the Philippines was different, and I wanted to find out more about my grandmother, Paulita, and her past. She was born on May 19, 1946 in Pampanga, Philippines. Her only job as a child was to do her chores and help her mom at a family-owned restaurant. After she graduated high school, she got married and had four children, one of them is my mother. She’s a…

Eating is an activity that I share with my family and it is one of my primary concerns and even a hobby. My family is known from been foodies: we cook everything from scratch, we know the best places to eat and have tried and eat any type of food: Japanese, Indian, Jewish, Italian, and many others. My dad’s parents were Italian which makes him the king of food while my mom comes from a family where cooking is just second nature. My relationship with food has been somewhat complicated: I have…

The Circle STAMP conference left a tangible impact on all of us that's meant to be shared. It left us all with the power to be great leaders, better teachers, and amazing allies to those who need it most. We as representatives of Colorado Academy, attend workshops run by students who passionately advocate for their topic, whether it's gender double standards, stereotyping, effects of socio-economic class, ways society labels us, or representation from the media. Each class taught and provided us…

to do. Quoted on page 56, “Teach her how to wash rice properly so that the water runs clear. Her husband cannot eat muddy rice.” Lindo has to learn how wash rice. This quote shows another example how women are expected to cook and displays that cooking is a women’s job. The mothers teach their daughters to be disciplined so they could be suitable women and fit their ‘role’. #3 When the…

While she loves bike riding and photography, her favorite thing to do in her free time is cooking. Estrella gets her love for the kitchen from her dad. She’s always ready to cook up a new dish with whatever she can find. Spontaneous trips to the supermarket to pick up ingredients can always turn her bad days into good. Another thing she is very…

America. For example, Leroy 's injury causes him to become unsettled by his inability to play the role of the powerful husband in the marriage. This incident allows Leroy to emotionally get in touch with his feministic side and take on more feministic hobbies. Just as in any marriage, he has emotionally changed after his injury which has altered the emotional aspect found within Norma Jean. Stewart Cooke is a reader who believes that the change emotionally within Norma is the starting point to…

The next day was not a good one for Elaine, as soon as she woke up you could hear her gag and then run straight to the bathroom that connected our rooms to empty her stomach. I am glad I didn't drink last night or else I would also be in the bathroom and that would not be pretty, considering we only have one. I walk to the kitchen to make breakfast for the both of us, we had very little groceries stored in the cupboards so there weren't that many options. However, we did have bread, eggs and…