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04. Work to Protect Me Subtitle_Why I Put My Heart Into Home Cooking Home cooking has two meanings for me. First, home cooking can be expressed in two words: ‘warmth’ and ‘nostalgia.’ From my childhood to my teenage years, my grandmother and mother were always responsible for breakfast and dinner. Before going to school, I would tell them to eat a spoonful of rice in warm soup in case I got hungry and couldn’t concentrate on my studies, so I ate it without even wiping off the boogers from my eyes and left the house. After finishing my studies and returning, my mother would always serve me warm rice, even if it was late, saying that I had worked hard studying today. A scene that is still vivid in my memory is the sight of her scooping out freshly cooked, glossy rice from a pressure cooker and filling the air with it. The delicious smell of that rice still lingers in my nostrils. There are many times when I miss those days that I can’t go back to. Secondly, home cooking is like a tonic to me. I started my social life and ate out every day, drinking and dancing. I enjoyed my debaucherous life so much. After about two years, I felt something bad about my body and went to the hospital. Well, I was in my mid-20s and they said that I had menopausal hormone levels. What kind of a sudden news story is this? After that incident, my self-esteem as a woman continued to drop day by day and I couldn’t lead a normal life. I was receiving treatment, but I was living a life that was devastated by the mental shock. I thought I couldn’t go on like this anymore, so I cut myself off from the outside world and started to cultivate my inner self. I stopped eating delivery food, junk food, microwaves, and plastic, and started cooking at home. I stopped eating sweet snacks at all and ate only natural foods and light exercise. After two years, my body and mind became healthier than before I got sick. Environmental hormones are really scary. I used to feel that eating habits were so important. Since then, home-cooked meals have become so precious and thankful to me. Even now that my body has returned to normal, I practice a zero-waste lifestyle, reduce plastic as much as possible, and still enjoy home-cooked meals. After almost losing my body, the act of cooking at home is no longer difficult for me. What does home-cooked meals mean to you? #Record Club #미완성라이프 #집밥 #집밥요리 #집밥메뉴 #온더테이블 #온더플레이트 #신혼부부일상 #신혼부부밥상 #신혼밥상