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“I feel sad. I go to the kitchen, I start to cook. Cooking is a way of loving. When you cook for someone, you give them the most intimate part of yourself.”

— Forough Farrokhzad

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Farrokhzad finds in cooking a response to sadness and an expression of love.

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