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": "assistant", "content": "I really like cooking. It can be a real art and you don't even need heat to do it."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Can you explain why you would not need heat to cook?  I am confused."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are many cooking techniques that vary using a wide variety of traditions. Not everything needs heat to make ceviche."}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is ceviche exactly?  I see it on menus but have never had it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A seafood dish made of raw fish in citrus, with chili peppers."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting.  What other types of food are there that don't necessarily need heat?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Depends on how you define cooking. Cooking depends on the skill of a person and the education they have."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I sort of get that.  I have very little skill at cooking.  Are there any good books or websites you can recommend to get started?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Not off hand. There are many books in bookstores though. Cooking started so long ago, maybe even 1 million years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow.  I guess that makes sense.  What are your favorite cuisines to prepare?"}]