If I think back to my childhood, I can remember my mom rolling out kolaczki. I can remember coming home from school to beef stew cooling on the stove. I remember getting to lick the mashed potato beaters before a big holiday dinner. I can also remember my mom giving me free reign of the hand mixer to help out with a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Um, PS, dough and flour went everywhere. Yeah, don’t worry Mom, I didn’t forget that fun fact. I started watching Cooked on Netflix. Anybody? Michael Pollan is my fave. The science nerd and reformed vegetarian in me just resonates with him. Anyway, Cooked talks about humans and their connection with cooking. He talks about how, in the recent years, humans have more of a tendency to watch a show where somebody cooks dinner as opposed to actually cooking dinner every night. He also talks about why we as humans cook and feel so drawn to cooking. He makes the argument that cooking in itself is what makes us human. Now that I am a mom, I look forward to creating those kolacki and mashed potato types of memories for my boys. The other …

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