Cooking is love, cooking is culture, cooking is religion, cooking is art, cooking is science, cooking is psychology ....
I'm sure if I thought long enough I could go on forever. Eating is also all of the above.
To me, cooking and eating is basis of all mankind, what binds us together, what we all have in common. I've travelled quite a bit, and if you can sit and eat with your fellow man, you can form a bond. That is my philosophy of cooking.