Leda is an artist working at home. Her favorite hobby is cooking and she is thinking to start cooking professionally; she already has a site under construction where she plans to sell cookies as it seems that this is her stronger recipe. She is in her mid 30’s, she is married with one child. She has also a column in a Greek magazine for Chinese products where she is writing one recipe per month.
She has proposed to cook her famous Easter cookies for the interview with the help of her child and her nephew. Lucky me, I had the chance to taste the cookies and take some of them as a gift!
She reports that she just loves food but she loves more to cook for others. She is constantly buying books with recipes, magazines for cooking and read about cooking on the internet; there are several blogs she is watching, blogs of people who like to talk about cooking.
She is cooking every day for the family and she often cooks for friends and extended family. She also likes to throw parties, especially for children using themes: a Halloween party with matching recipes, Easter party, Pirate party, Treasure Hunt party, always with different and theme-based recipes and decorations, most of the times hand-made.
She reports that cooking is not only for survival. Cooking for Leda is a form of art! In that context, she pays attention to the details: not only to the taste but also how the dish is served and decorated. She is ordering lots of stuff from the internet to be sure that she has enough materials to transform her dishes to art objects.
She is mainly following the Mediterranean cuisine with frequent additions from the Chinese cuisine. She also likes some American and British recipes and she has many recipe books from international and British chefs.
She is going to the super market for most of her purchases. She is also interested at bio products. She reports that she tries to buy fruits and vegetables for a bio shop since she is very worried about all the chemicals and hormones we take by eating. She reports that shopping at bio shops is much more expensive than the super-market but those are money well spent. It seems that price is not the main criterion when shopping. She prefers to buy high quality materials since she has more palatable results when using them.
Butter seems to be important in her cuisine: she reports that she just loves butter and its taste and smell… She utilizes a lot of butter in her everyday cuisine and especially to her sweets as she reports that nothing tastes better than a freshly baked and warm butter cookie. She prefers buying Lurpak as she believes that it has the best taste and texture. She reports that in general, she tries to cut down calories and unneeded fats. Though, butter is still important as it offers a unique taste and pleasure to dishes that she cannot find in other substitutes.
In general, she has some brands that she considers as “favorite” brands and she is loyal: brands that she buys not only from the super market but form the internet as well. She reports that some brands in several categories are the best and she wants them even if it means that she has to purchase them abroad.
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