/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17248361]

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?

[Anonymous No.17248478]

>>17248361
Same here, especially cooking ancestral or family fishes. Check out Chef's Table if you haven't. Covers different chefs perspectives and philosophies on cooking.

[Anonymous No.17248543]

My sentiment towards it is more procedural. I like visualizing the entire cooking process, generating a list of things in my head I'm going to do in order and then autistically check them off as i do them.

I'm schizoid so I don't really feel sentimentality or "connections" in the sense you're describing so I enjoy cooking in a different way.

[Anonymous No.17248658]

>>17248361
Have you considered talking to a therapist or priest about this issue?

[Anonymous No.17248671]

>>17248361
Not really
I feel like humans have conquered earth and now I have access to almost any meal I want made from almost any ingredient that has traditionally been used in cooking from any part of the world
I feel like any person in the past doesn't matter and I know better by virtue of existing in a world that gives me so many possibilities
There are docens of bread recipes that only exist so people can make bread in austerity when flour is limited and they can't get any, they all suck why should they be remembered?

[Anonymous No.17248712]

>>17248361
My last name is translates to "baker" so when I make bread there is something of a connection there because I can be reasonably confident that I'm participating in what was the family business back in the old country for a good number of generations. It feels kinda nice

[Anonymous No.17248733]

>>17248361
When my boyfriend jackhammers my bussy I think “A Greek boy was experiencing this over 2,000 years ago.” It really makes me feel a spiritual connection with little Nikolaos or Attikos

[Anonymous No.17248819]

>>17248733
that's super deep anon

[Anonymous No.17248825]

>>17248733
He was most likely cumming inside a little boy

[Anonymous No.17248884]

>>17248361
sounds like delusions of grandeur

[Anonymous No.17249464]

>>17248884
Perhaps

[Anonymous No.17249615]

>>17248712
My last name is translates to "Fuck" so when I make fuck there is something of a connection there because I can be reasonably confident that I'm participating in what was the family business back in the old country for a good number of generations. It feels kinda nice

[Anonymous No.17249651]

Yeah I agree op, I feel the same way
That's why I try to cook traditional recipes only, I like listening to traditional folk music and studying traditional forms of life

[Anonymous No.17249664]

>>17248361
>Does anyone else feel almost spiritual connections when cooking?

No. No man. Shit, no man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked if you did something like that, man

[Anonymous No.17249685]

>>17248361
What the fuck are you smoking. The only cool thing about cooking is bbqing some shit with your boys.

[Anonymous No.17249721]

>>17248733
Poetic

[Anonymous No.17249734]

>>17249685
>spiritually connect to Boys from 10000 years ago who were bbqing boar
>>17248361
Anyone who does not do this is an npc or at minimum a woman-brained fag