Madi and her kitchen

mad cucina

THE JOY OF COOKING

I have always enjoyed cooking for family and for friends. Small children become big ones and tastes and fashions change but the love of providing good food and happy, shared moments are timeless. There is a sense of creativity and a real satisfaction which amount to joy. Home life is always centred on the kitchen. Who cannot admit that, returning after a long day at school or in the office, their spirits do not lift at the sound of activity coming from that quarter and the smell of an apple pie or meaty stew cooking in the oven? Without the kitchen and the cook the house is not a home and there is no soul.

New worlds open when researching recipes; one learns social history, folk lore and customs, one can bring this new knowledge to one’s own table and share its wonders.

Cherish your cook and appreciate her! Otherwise, as Saki, that brilliant writer of wicked short stories so cleverly put it. “She was a good cook as cooks go and as cooks go, she went”