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Baking bread. Cooking. I’ve never made bread, but I cook. Lately I was thinking that my stomach gets tired after eating out too many times, it’s like the body requests a meal that gives a break. So, I try to cook it.
The results are often different from the original idea, but making something that I like, and watching it arranged nicely on the plate, gives me an emotion I can hardly explain. But let’s put aside this cooking story, I’m not good at it anyway, and let’s add a story about an interview. In my previous job, I interviewed some designers, and asking questions along with me there was a top designer:

“In all the cooking process, what is your favorite stage?”

he always asked. That is, going shopping, cutting the ingredients, cooking them, and so on. He asked the favorite stage and the reason to the candidate. He asked this question without any particular feeling, but I thought it was very interesting and I started using it.

Cooking is a creative activity, and I think it is connected with how one person does his job. Imagining the final goal, and collecting all the things needed. Several steps are necessary: some steps need more speed, some need more time and care. I think your favorite stage in cooking, expresses your attitude at work and in your life, so I liked this question and I started asking it.

Besides, because nobody asks this question, nobody has an answer ready to use, so they wonder and think about it. I watch the reaction, and the person thinking about the answer. I imagine whether this person cooks and eats with his or her partner, or his/her parents, or maybe alone, and I share with the person the time needed to answer. I also like the soft atmosphere that this question creates. I like that there isn’t a correct answer, and I like the expressions of the persons while they are thinking.

At this point I’ve just realize that I cannot use this question in an interview anymore!

Next time, I’ll teach you how to make a perfect egg custard! (I won’t)