/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Does anyone else feel almost spiritual connections when cooking?
Maybe that's not the right word. I don't really know how else to explain it, but it's like this:
A lot of times when I'm cooking something, I feel like there's a connection between me and another person/ a moment in history/ a culture/ etc. via the recipe, method, or ingredients.
When I bake bread, it makes me think about how I am doing the same thing that someone a thousand years ago would have done with the same ingredients - flour, water, salt, yeast. It feels like almost a shared experience and it makes me feel like I'm really a part of humanity.
When I cook my mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe, it makes me think of my mom and my family, and I feel connected to them during that process even though they are not literally next to me.
When I include Hatch green chiles in a dish because it's an ingredient I grew up with, I feel like I'm carrying on the cultural traditions of the American southwest where I was born, even though I live far away from there now.

There were a couple shows on Netflix that kind of described this sensation: Samurai Gourmet and Cooked.
Is this a common thing to experience, or am I just fucking weird?

What are some of /ck/'s favorite food related movies?

My list is short but a few that come to mind are Eat Drink Man Woman, Babette's Feast, God of Cookery.