Poland - good food for sports, health and diversity

Agnieszka (30, entrepreneur, company co-owner) and Mariusz (31, entrepreneur, company co-owner)

This young marriage became fans of good food after a course at a well-know Warsaw based Kurt Sheller's cooking Academy, which they participated in back in 2007. They chose to eduacate themselves in cooking after they "sadly" stated that they eat the same dishes every couple of days.

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FOOD LOVING EDUCATION

"We treat cooking and eating good food as sport. You can say we compete with each other, but it is for sure a friendly competition. Its subject would be to surprise each other. It surely brings diversity to our lives and makes our live together less monotonous. On tuesday we ate Tex-Mex style steaks and yesterday we worked together for a perfect neapolitano pasta"

"Cooking and eating is also quite sensual or even erotic, but maybe that's a truism. I really like the fact that it became such an important part of our life. Not only because we indulge in sensual pleasures, but also because we really don't have to think about what to in the eveneings or during the weekends. I would even say that we don't have any spare time anymore - the time we don't spend doing something else, we spend cooking at home".

"When we started cooking we fitrst bought tons of cookbooks by multiple authors from multiple cultures and culinary schools. We really loved, especially that both of us really didn't know anything about cooking and about good ingredients one can use in the kitchen. We were really really green"

"Also our social life was nourished by this change of our culinary patterns and practices and flourished. We started invited friends over for dinner just after we started cooking 'for real'. We all laughed about our fails and always tried dishes that were not exactly perfect, just to discuss improvements to be made. It's funny how fast cooking fun goes semi-professional, at least in terms of attitude"

THE HEALTH ASPECT

"Being diabetic I always had to watch over my diet. My diabetes is not extreme and therefore it didn't real stop me from eating most of the food. But my ignorance in terms of foog chemistry and ingredient chemical composition posed danger to my life a couple of times. Learning cooking and food in general helped me get rid of those threats and dangers".

"We are also deeply convinced that there has been a significant change to our lives after we started to cook and eat consciously. We chose ingredients carefully and in accordance with our individual diet. And the funny thing is that once we started learning cooking and food, a lot of our - both big and small - health problems went away. I guess it must be because of the quality of food we bring into our home".

MY VERY OWN COOKBOOK

"Both of us really love to experiment with recipes and we actually did -- toutes proportiones gardees -- come up with some dishes, mostly by combining some other recipes, that people seem to enjoy much. It real fun, but reaching this requires a lot of patience, as it requires a real lot of attempts and trials".

Agnieszka and Mariusz cooked shrimps for me:

SUMMARY AND FINDINGS: Some food lovers have a sort of discovery-sports attitude. Their social life comes to surprising each other with culinary novelties and leads to creation of individual recipes. They also believe in good food as healthy and like to educate themselves in food in order to know more of the chemical structure of the dishes they consume.