These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 4: Cuisine – Feeling Good.

Cooking with Love

• No one deserves the title of a professional chef unless he or she always cooks with love.

• Cooking with love means both: love for cooking and love for those you cook for.

• There’s no need to worry. You don’t intend to cook with love; it just happens automatically and spontaneously. But you must be in love with your work anyway.

• A passion for cooking in the first place, and not necessarily your love for those you cook for, is what makes you cook with love.

• Cooking with love stems primarily from the inside of the chef. But without a doubt, the appreciation of others deepens the chef’s love while cooking.

• A professional chef is interested primarily in the commercial success of his or her cooking. A chef who cooks with love is deeply concerned with the satisfaction of gourmets.

• Cooking with love is nature, but smart coaching and wise mentoring sometimes succeed in stimulating that nature for some educated cooks who seem to miss it completely.

• A chef who cooks with love teaches cooking also with love.

• To make sure that food is cooked with love, you do not need to observe the chef while preparing it. You can certainly feel the food cooked with love while you eat it when it is served to you.

• Cooking with love does not mean not making mistakes. However, in any case, a chef who cooks with love will not make obvious mistakes because his or her focus and ambition go well beyond merely escaping blame.

• Cooking with love is not just about fun when you get to the kitchen. It’s a subtle blend of love for the kitchen, happiness with every cooking experience, and a deep appreciation for the work you do.