"It was partly to create community, partly that I don't cook that often but like cooking for other people when I do, " she said.

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We thought you could eat it with a spoon and cut it with a knife. (Laughter.) And I know a lot of parents out there cooking broccoli like that.

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It may look like I was trying to avoid my mother and her home cooking by going to Journalism College as far away as possible - Carlisle to Portsmouth is a bit of a trek - but that couldn't be further from the truth.

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But I remember cooking and it's not always easy to make something that people like to eat.

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Just like recipes in cooking, these are heuristics, rules of thumb, and not laws, which I think is very apropos to the nature of randomness and serendipity.

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