Ambience

Ambience is described as a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person or thing (Sunderland, 2010). After much consideration and thinking about this definition I now view my own ambience as the reason to why I cook. I have had a change inn viewpoint on cooking and now find it a relaxing and a very therapeutic activity. I now have a sense of belonging when I cook, this is because of being able to connect my cooking with a place, person or thing. These coould be things like when I cooked my fathers favour meal, or using my mothers famous self saucing chocolate pudding recipe that link me to the person or the memory of the place in which this was carried out. For example cooking my mother's self saucing chocolate pudding for my flatmate links me not only to my mother but the memory of when I was younger and my mother cooked this for my brother, sister and I on cold winter nights. This is just one example of when ambience has been brought into my cooking.

Sunderland (2011) states that 'new technologies are never totally superior to older technologies they attempt to replace. This relates to using new cooking techniques or tools do not necessarilly make the end product any better than the tradition (or old) techniques. I believe this statement to be very true I have many techniques (or 'tricks of the trade' as my nana calls them) that I have learnt from my nana and my mother that are far better to use when cooking than some newer techniques.

References
Sunderland, J. (2010). Adaptive living occupation: BT127001 (lecture notes). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Polytechnic, Department of Occupational Therapy.

Sunderland, J. (2011). Participation in occupation I:  BT230001 (lecture notes). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Polytechnic, Department of Occupational Therpay.