I love to cook! Especially things that take a long, long time...there's nothing like taking a really tough piece of meat, some aromatics, and liquid, and transforming it into something magical (or a really tough piece of meat and some salt, if I want to cure something).
That's actually what drew me into homebrewing, I think...I've been progressing steadily to doing almost all of the work in my cooking (curing meat, making sausages, growing vegetables and preserving them, etc)...I suppose the time just came when I needed to start making my own beer.