i love to cook for my family and friends.
[{"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": "hi, do you like to cook?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Absolutely; I love it, but I am not that good at it.  It really is an art, ... even a science to prepare it.  How about you? "}, {"role": "user", "content": "haha. same here. i love to eat tho"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "LOL.  Me too.  Techniques and ingredients vary from place to place around the world.  I use a conventional stove, but I even like to cook over an open fire.  Something about fresh fire is great."}, {"role": "user", "content": "oh really? do you have a barbq pit?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not a pit, but I do have a wood-burning stove.  It is cast-iron with a closed fire-chamber.  But you can open up channels to let the flames and smoke flow over the food.  It's a pretty good device.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "oh no kiddin?! we had one of those when i was a kid, an old iron stove"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes; and I love to use a standard grill with wood or coals.  It cooks with a dry heat; but I still find the flavoring much better than boiling food or just frying it up.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "later, gtty"}]