Cooking food & consciousness

It's early afternoon and just had the honour to make chocolate filling for chocolate cake (made last night) for my 12 year old daughter as she has invited her best friends for a slumber party...I will be slumbering too with one eye/ear in constant vigilance.

Transforming ingredients into a dish is a process that affects consciousness. As it is a creative process in which movements (measuring, stirring, thinking) are all important. It is a process that brings me right down to earth and in unity with 'materials'. I often enjoyed that feeling of cooking as a transformative process and I witnessed it in many other kitchens with my female & male friends while cooking.

Cooking is not a very high priority as so much food comes prepared and the process of transformation that we could undergo through cooking is lost.

My question is: has anybody else witnessed in themselves the effect of preparing food/cooking food as a transformative process to their consciousness?