What is cooking?

Hobbies are great distraction from "work". Any outdoor activity like running, biking or playing basketball or cricket is good break in a day for me. It makes me completely forget about any tension that I may have. Sometimes a football or basketball game in TV, music, a book, or a good movie also does the same trick. Cooking, I found gives me same joy. Especially, when I do more for fun than when I am just too hungry. I like to cook different food (Indian-Vegetarian) from vegetable dishes to snacks and eat with my friends. My favorite things to cook - Pav Bhaji, Batata Vada, various beans, eggplant, amati, smbar, rassam, masale bhaat, ...