Day 20 — A hobby of yours
FOOD! can food be a hobby? SURE IT CAN.
i am preoccupied by food...all the time. i think about it all the time. what am i going to eat next? how awesome was the last thing i ate? what am i going to cook? what do i wish i could cook? what is this food that i will one day eat when i am rich enough? what foods do i want to travel the world to eat because eating them here just isn't the same.
and cooking, i guess, might be more accurate as an action, rather than something that i'm just obsessed with. i love to cook. i made dashi (seaweed & bonito broth) from scratch this weekend, and then used it to make okonomiyaki (a japanese cabbage pancake, sometimes called osaka soul food - it's good!). i like to set aside a day/week to try making something new that may be labor intensive, but totally worth it.
in truth, i prefer cooking for others more than for myself. of course i cook for me because if i don't, i have to eat crappy fast food and then i will get fat and have a bunch of health problems and be disgusted with myself and not live long enough, etc. and i will have digestive problems and just generally have a dulled sense of taste. EAT REAL FOOD, PPL. anyway but yeah cooking for other people is so much more satisfying. it's a way to show how much i care, and how much i appreciate them being in my life, that goes beyond words. i cook with love, and food always tastes better that way!