{"id":35,"date":"2026-06-13T18:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culinarymicroscope.com\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:44:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/culinarymicroscope.com\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m Jad, a home cook and caterer based in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the advancement of technology and widely available recipes, most home cooks can reliably put a dinner on the table that the whole family rates around 8 out of 10. And 8 out of 10 is genuinely good \u2014 but it&#8217;s rarely memorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s interesting is that practicing more doesn&#8217;t necessarily raise that score. 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