Cooking in our 40s: Is it an Essential or Optional Ingredient in Life?

In these days of food apps and food delivery services, how important is it still to learn how to cook, especially in your 40s? This episode is all about food and food culture, and our non-chef hosts will share with us how they got to love their time in the kitchen. We will also be talking about food culture in the Philippines and Italy. It's one delicious episode so don't miss to book your seat in our meryenda table!

Timestamps:0:00 Intro
1:00 Our meryenda
1:54 Filipino and Italy food culture
7:58 Italian meal structure
10:11 Filipino rice meals
13:16 Some Italian food rules
16:35 Seasonal cooking
20:40 Apperitivo culture
24:29 Similarities between cultures
32:28 Filipino vs Italian gatherings39:21 What cooking means to us
42:31 Benefits and importance of cooking
45:04 Our love story with cooking
47:21 Cooking as an outlet for creativity
51:03 Tips for simple cooking
54:15 Beyond cooking: growing your own vegetables
56:14 Food as a love language
BONUS:59:16 Liv’s Gnocchetti recipe

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Music by Arrigo Martelli    / @arrigomartelli  

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