Coco Zhang loves cooking because it is an essential life skill that allows her to take care of herself, especially when away from family. She also enjoys cooking delicious dishes that make her family happy. Cooking also interests her in nutrition and allows her to study how different nutritional elements can impact taste. Some examples provided are making scary Halloween cookies with friends and cooking a pizza with roommates to say goodbye to a friend's mother returning to China. In conclusion, she asks if the reader has also fallen in love with cooking.

1. Theme -- I Love Cooking
by Coco Zhang

2. I love cooking,
because
it is an essential life skill. We are away from
our hometown, perhaps our family as well.
We need to learn to take care of ourselves,
and cooking is an important one of them.

3. I love cooking,
because
I like making delicious dishes for my family. I
am really pleased to see my family has had
the meal I made happily.

4. I love cooking,
because
it is cooking that
makes me
interested in
nutrition. It helps
me find the fun of
studying nutriton,
which two things
put together can
create a better
taste, for example.

5. My friend and I were
making scary Halloween
cookies. The shape fitted
Halloween, and I really
enjoyed the process of
making it.

6. In the picture, my roommates and I were
making a delicious pizza. Peter’s mother
was going back to China the day after that
day, so we were making a large pizza to
say good-bye to her.

7. Haven’t
you fallen
in love
with
cooking?