I’m Ileana Puiu and I love cooking.
This whole journey started somewhere in 2018. The year of the baccalaureate exam. I tried my best to ignore the decisive threshold that was about to come. Days passed and the shows I watched made me feel worse than I expected, and one day, I did something that was completely natural to me. I made my own food. I turned my attention to cooking, I was more attentive. The second day the same, the third again. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. I also got to cook with my boyfriend. I entered a world that seemed infinite. So many recipes, so many foods and combinations, there isn’t enough time to make them all… But I can try. I want to try. To know, to learn and to taste. So, almost daily, I choose, combine, revel in the strangest, normal and new combinations. I love it so much, I feel somehow worthy, like I have a purpose, I don’t feel as bad anymore. It’s 2022 now. It’s been 4 years since I’ve been cooking at home, for family, for friends, for myself, and I want to share this passion with more people. I want to see how far I can go and I certainly don’t want to do it alone, nor do I think I can.