
It’s like listening to two covers of the same song, one will go to the ears and the other will go straight to the heart and soul. If one of them has a good nafas, you will feel it while tasting their food. You can give two cooks the same ingredients in the same quantities and ask them to prepare the same dish following the same recipe step by step. It’s a person’s very own technique in cooking and their special touch that they put into the meal they prepare. It’s when their heart and soul are involved in the process of cooking, while cutting onions, adding salt, mixing everything together and presenting it to the ones they love and care about. If their food is plain, we say they don’t have nafas in cooking at all!Īl nafas in cooking is, in other words, the positive energy, love, passion and care that a person would put into their cooking. We say that a person has good nafas in cooking, meaning that whatever they cook, even if it is as simple as a fried egg with olive oil, salt and pepper, will taste differently when they cook it.

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