Welcome to my site. I have begun this site to explore the subject of cooking with awareness due to the lack of positive intention and consciousness-based approaches to the culinary experience. Food is really the heart of our lives, one that supports and nourishes us both physically and mentally. With this in mind, I hope to explicate the tenderness involved in the kitchen environment. Yes, tenderness. Insults and harrowing, hurried tales of the culinary world might make interesting reality television, but something deeper is sacrificed, mainly awareness. In the east, particularly in India, the cook is considered essential to a person's well-being in part due to the conscious awareness brought to the act of creating a meal. It is thought that their state of mind imbues the food with a subtlety that is extremely important. I hope to examine this idea here as a direct manifestation of personal experience from my own life and, with hope, from examples that others choose to share.