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::The Kitchenhood::

If you learn to cook, you can change your life.

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Samir Selmanovic
Jun 05, 2025
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In Ancient Greece, the word for “cook” and “priest” was the same — “mageiros” — sharing an etymological root with “magic.” The word appears again in the revealing 1814 anonymous Old English book, The…

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