i like to cook.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Cooking or cookery is the art, technology, science and craft of preparing food for consumption with or without the use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments. Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, such as in ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice. Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans. It may have started around 2 million years ago, though archaeological evidence for it reaches no more than 1 million years ago. The expansion of agriculture, commerce, trade and transportation between civilizations in different regions offered cooks many new ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as the invention of pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I have had jobs in the food industry before but I love cooking at home. I'm somewhat of a chef."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love cooking as an art! I've never prepared food for a living though."}, {"role": "user", "content": "As an art do you mean making pretty arrangements of food? That's one of the most important aspects I think."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I just mean art as in the skill of learning cooking techniques and understanding how to make new tastes spring forth."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh yes there's lots of concepts of art in cooking. There's even a scientific cooking where you cook molecules instead of regular food."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Recently I've been experimenting a lot with Indian cuisine. The way it uses spices, herbs and vegetables varies considerably from traditional western cuisine. What do you think of Indian food?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've actually never tried Indian food. I'm a Vegan so I'm usually a picker eater but I did like the look of Samosa and Pakori if I got those right."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Samosas are good. Personally I like to make curry. Curry really is a variety of dishes, many of which are traditionally vegan (often for religious reasons)."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's been on my list to try Indian food for a while but I don't like picking new food when I'm hungry. There are a few restaurants nearby though."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well if you do decide to try, pay attention to the region the food comes from. Indian cuisine has a huge regional variety. For example, if you don't like spicy stay away from Southern Indian food."}]