Inquiry - Can this be shortened/trimmed? (Challenge: String Formatting With Dictionaries)

Even though I was able to meet the demands of the challenge, I can't help but feel as though there's a way to shorten out the glob of code I created.

In addition, I also have a couple of questions which may in turn answer/solve my original inquiry.

• When passing a list of dictionaries, can you directly access each individual dictionary OR do you need to "unpack" each individual dictionary within the list?

• Can dictionaries contain functions?

• Based on what you've seen with my code, what do you believe needs to be worked upon?

Thank you for your time reader, and I'm looking forward to your replies/insight.

def string_factory(listage):

    # Create an empty list to acquire/append each string
    master_list = []

    # Takes in the values of each dictionary from 'listage'
    # and returns them in the properly formatted string
    # as the challenge demands
    def extractor(name = None, food = None):

        return "Hi, I'm {} and I love to eat {}!".format(name, food)

    # While within listage...
    for repeater in listage:

        # Extract each dictionary and append them to 'master_list'
        master_list.append(extractor(**repeater)) 


    return master_list