The most essential ingredient is love for the people you are cooking for. Everything else I learned along the way. A garden childhood I grew up on a vegetarian commune in northern Sweden. We had a garden and a greenhouse, and in summer I would disappear into the forest and come back with my hands red from wild strawberries. Cucumbers came straight off the vine. Nettles went into soup. My mum let me make a mess in the kitchen, as long as I cleaned it up afterwards. I think that is where it all st