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That brings up an interesting thought.

Am I a cooking enthusiast because I spend time hunting/fishing/foraging wild ingredients? Many of my neighbors do some foraging and hunt and fish also. (I live on a lake in the middle of a very large forest). Or does the fact I made 10lbs of home smoked Canadian bacon in my own smoker this fall make me a cooking enthusiast? Maybe the breads I sometimes bake? Or the hand harvested and then parched over a wood fire wild rice I traded some of my bacon for from my one neighbor?

Am I a cooking hobbyist? Or am I just cooking to survive? Where is the line drawn?

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Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not sure depends. If you didn’t do any of that would you still survive?

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- bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Would I survive? Perhaps not so well. Everything I forage or hunt and fish for reduces the amount of dollars spent on buying groceries. And a good portion of what we eat you can’t buy in a store.
  
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  - RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The second part of that comment sounds like you are a culinary enthusiast not a survivalist. Like, I grow stuff in the garden to get better, fresher foods and varieties I don’t see in the store, and also for the local bees Saving money is secondary(tertiary?), though I think at this point the lines may have crossed and we are saving some money. I do it because I like good food.
    
    If I lived where there was more to forage, you can bet your ass I would be foraging too. Wild food is awesome.
    
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    bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It’s probable, I do like to cook and do it well. Though I don’t own a single kitchen knife that costs over $10US. But, that foraging really makes a large difference in the grocery bill also. Particularly when the grocery store is a mere 100 mile round trip away.
    
    I tend to think I’m somewhere in the middle of surviving and hobbyist. I grew up poor and I’m often just doing the same things I have always done since childhood because we needed to. And I continue to do a lot of it simply because of habit and I do enjoy eating everything I forage.
    
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