How cooking with your partner can strengthen your relationship

It was a cold February evening in a cramped galley kitchen of a 1920s bungalow. We were a newly married couple: young, in love and hopelessly ambitious in our culinary endeavors (despite our major lack of experience). Our mission that night: to create a pizza from scratch, a task neither of us had attempted before.

Of course, our high hopes for a perfectly round, elegantly charred Italian-style masterpiece went out the window after the first few minutes. But despite the mess, the misshapen dough and the floppy pizza slices, laughter filled that tiny kitchen. It was more than just preparing a meal; it was about creating a bond through our shared creativity and teamwork.

Adventures like these blossomed into our life’s work. As a husband-and-wife team of cookbook authors, we’ve come a long way from that first pizza. But the essence of what we found that night remains at the heart of our cooking philosophy: Cooking is better together.

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