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": "assistant", "content": "I love cooking for my family and trying new cooking techniques and using new technology."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wish I was better at cooking. What is your favorite thing to cook?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Even though it's existed since pre-colonial times, my favorite things to cook are on the grill, especially grilled veggies."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh I love grilled veggies. My husband grilled up some zucchini and squash last week and it was so good!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There's much debate over what method of grilling is the best, but when I was young we used to have corn roasts in a barbeque pit and it was the best ever!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't know what a corn roast is?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are different ways to grill, and this is just an open fire pit filled with coals and a wire rack over top and you cook the corn in the husks."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh I bet that corn on the cob delicious. What kind of seasonings do you use?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No seasoning, well except salt. I guess the direct heat and how quickly it cooks the corn that makes it taste so good."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you add butter to the corn right before you eat it?"}]