Feeding a family on a slender budget, or shopping the finest shops and preparing food at its best-I've done both in my life, and everything in between, and find joy in the full range of experience.

I rely on family recipes, but am always open to learning more from cookbooks, which represent the collective wisdom and experience of many great chefs. These expand my culinary horizons and those of my family, and also contain helpful information on nutrition and healthy eating.

Cookbooks are also a way of traveling the world without ever leaving home, enabling my family to explore exotic dishes from nations across the globe, thus adding even more richness to our lives.

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