I have a confession to make. It’s a big one, so bear with me. I like to cook, something I’ve already said in Connect, Unite, Act here on Daily Kos. I talk about it and think about it. Even when I’m with others, I tend to swap recipes. Recently, I've had a lot to think about in terms of how hunger has so often made a big impact on how I react—impulsively, I will grab food, decide to cook, or just make changes as I go because, well, I like doing it. As a result, I have a kitchen absolutely full of gadgets: pressure cooker, slow cooker, air fryers, mixers with pasta-making attachment, sausage-making attachment, and even more. Cast iron skillets and dutch oven pots fill up a lazy susan in a house where I really should probably be spending more money on anything else. I do not know Kamala Harris well. We’ve met a few times, but never spoken at any length. The one time we did speak there was only one topic that filled the discussion: food. Before she spoke at Netroots Nation, as pictured above, in her prep room the discussion with several present was about hunger, what kind of food we liked, the things we had tried, and foods we learned we did not like no matter how often we tried them at the suggestion of others.  Read more