09/06/2025
Cooking for others is one of the most intimate and powerful acts of love. This heartfelt reflection explores how preparing a meal can nourish connection, preserve culture, and quietly change the world—one plate at a time.
Just finished cooking another dinner for my client. While I was cooking, I thought about my connection to cooking, food, my past, and my family. For some reason, so many emotions and warm thoughts were showing up on that evening
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Another wonderful dinner cooked for my client for a special occasion.
Want to Change the World? Start by Making Dinner.
The quiet, revolutionary magic of feeding someone you love.
There are few acts in life more quietly powerful than cooking for another human being. It’s so woven into our daily lives that we rarely pause to consider what it really means. But I’ll say it plainly: cooking for someone is one of the most intimate, radical, and loving things you can do.
Feeding someone is primal. It’s not about ego or applause—it’s not a stage, a social media reel, or a show. It’s survival. It’s presence. It’s love made tangible. When you cook for someone, you take on an ancient role: the one who sustains. The fire-keeper. The nourisher. The soul-tender.
We’re born helpless, a raw bundle of need. Our very first instinct? To be fed. To be comforted. To be held close and nourished. That first offering—a bottle, a breast, a spoon of warm applesauce—is our first lesson in love. From day one, to be fed is to be cared for. To be worthy. To be seen.
So when I cook, I’m not just preparing a meal—I’m honoring a lineage. I’m reaching back through generations of hands stirring pots, chopping onions, whispering, “Here. I made this for you.” Whether it’s a slow-roasted chicken or a humble bowl of soup, the message is the same: Live. Be nourished. I want you to stay.
In that exchange, something holy happens. The boundary between giver and receiver dissolves. My being reaches into yours. We’re connected. I become part of your well-being, part of your story of being alive.
What could possibly be more sacred than that?
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