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Hi Perzen

That Butter Chicken video is so bad! Maybe try a re-make starring the lovely Rushad?

As for the AI , we don't need it when it comes to food - except - maybe you are right, to answer the desperate eleventh hour conundrum of what is for dinner or maybe "Quick! What to do with this piece of chicken?" Hope I don't have to stoop so low if the pantry is well-stocked by "Dolly Mumma". Absolutely no need to resort to technology at all.

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Hi Perzen - Not so engaged by the AI side of things. I am far more interested in just hearing about your own personal experiences with preparing the food you love, for people you love, and what it means to your inner life to do so. The whole consideration of how we choke diversity out of our life by getting into a rut of habit seems to be extremely relevant to food preparation. I would love to hear more about food as a practice and metaphor for life, how we cook and eat, and what we eat, being reflective of how we’re living.

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Rick, I wrote this while doing a course on writing with AI so it felt like a relevant piece to write. Appreciate the callout that it's not my usual style :)

I feel there's two types of cooking we do in our lives. The everyday, relentless, cooking to keep the family fed cooking and the slow, meditative, exploring food cooking. Personally, I find the first one energy-sapping and annoying and maybe, AI can help with the god awful question that is "Mum, what's for dinner tonight".

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Well that all makes perfect sense. How you came to write this in the first place, and second, that particular and potential utility of AI in meeting the "god awful question." Maybe you should change the name of your publication to "Mum, what's for dinner tonight?" Solving that problem ought to be worth about a billion subscribers. : )

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