| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 9/5/2005 9:58:06 PM | when I was four I performed my first surgery...of course the guy died and it was operation i was playing.
THey have stools and such. I cooked when I was four..but just chinese dumplings and eggs. AndI was always with someone. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?....................
Posted: 11/23/2005 3:14:22 AM | | My grandmother,she was great,she never worried at times about using exact measurements .She somehow would say about this much and proceed to throw everything together.And of course you learn recipes and ideas from friends or cooking shows. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?....................
Posted: 11/24/2005 1:30:41 PM | | I grew up on a fruit farm.......it was learn to cook or go hungry! Had 3 boys and a girl in my family, only one that didn't cook was the girl.....who by the way manages a bakery now! | |
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| How did you learn to cook?....................
Posted: 11/24/2005 2:20:40 PM | | my mother died when i was only 10 I was the only girl in the house so i kinda took over as the cook of the house my grandmother always encouraged me to cook rather than to eat out also. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?....................
Posted: 11/25/2005 12:48:03 PM | | My Mom is such a terrible cook, she has been known to burn Jello. When she and Daddy got divorced in the 70's, his new wife was from California. She introduced us to avacados and artichokes and sauted mushrooms and the like. She was one of the best cooks I have ever met. One day, I came home from school and she was making a baked Alaska. I asked if we were having company and she said, "No, I just wanted to see if I could do it." I said, "Isn't it hard to do?" and her reply is something I have applied to nearly every aspect of my life. She said, "Thinks are only hard if you don't want to take the time to doe them properly." I have tackled every kind of cooking that interests me with that attitude. I fininshed culinary school and specialized in Thai cooking, because of her influence. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/26/2005 5:47:27 PM | I've been making my own bread since 1972, but never could cook worth a hoot. I could pop corn, do a great steak, get pasta el dente, but the sauce came out of a can. Hunt's is as good as anybody's in terms of bang per buck. A couple of years ago, I decided I needed to learn how to cook, so I read a lot of books and went at it, just as I had done for the baking. Not all cookbooks are created equal. After about a year or so of experiments, I now make what my brother calls gourmet fare. But what does he know, he lives out of tuna cans....
 You can learn to do virtually anything from a book.  | |
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Posted: 11/26/2005 11:33:53 PM | | Gawd! Who can cook? It's a learning process. Can't do the the daily thing. When I feel like cooking I get me a recipe and give it a try. I make some wonderful things but most of the time it is hit or miss. Gravy sucked today but tomorrow who knows. Teaching myself everday. Loooved to do the dishes since I was a kid. Love to cook but don't always like it. lol. Self taught and still trying. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/27/2005 8:11:33 AM | A 4 year old can time a meal? Can reach the stove? Can use a knife? Just sounds out there to me.
My best friend is, among many other things, a gourmet cook. From the time his kids were two, he began teaching them sauces and flavours. The kids are now four and five-and-a-half and both of them can tell you what type of liquour was used in the sauce, and what spices on the steak.
Both of them started cooking on the stove -- with supervision and a step-stool -- at 3. Now, they can each make five or ten dishes; they can also identify several constellations in a clear sky and recognize twenty or so birds from their calls.
Me... I'm the same as Smith - started figuring it out for myself in my 30s when I liberated myself from the restaurants and frozen prepared crap. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/29/2005 3:48:06 PM | | I learned to cook by looking my father preparing dinner,most Italian food. Yes, a lot of pasta, but HOME MADE PASTA. I still keep the family recipe for the dough and tomato sauce, which I improved a little with a few ingredients I can tell you later. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/29/2005 5:33:14 PM | | I started teaching my daughters to cook the moment they could stand on a stool and crack eggs. Good thing, their mother cannot cook and they do anything in the kitchen that is not pre-packaged (one of the items listed as cause for divorce - I shit you not). | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/29/2005 9:02:15 PM | the same way I learned most everything by watching others.
I started cooking when I was 4 years old.
watched my mom make eggs then one day asked her if I could try. she thought about it for a long while it was a good 10 min and finally said ok.
after that I started making pancakes and burgers
people always asked why I did not do it for a living
I tell them people don't appreciate food enough for me to cook it for them!
some people go to a steak house order an expensive one, and then smother it with A-1 without tasting it fisrt.
these are the people that need to be slapped really hard! | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/30/2005 4:27:38 PM | | My mother taught me about cooking and preparing freshies (fruits and vegies). Then later, my father taught me how to cook meat. By that time I was old enough to start cooking anything, and I was taking cooking in middle school. I took 7 years of food prep in high school and college. Though my health prevented me from being a full time chef, I still love to cook. Lately I've been concentrating on sauces...and getting my butt kicked. I'd love to take a few advanced cooking classes on sauces and meats. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/30/2005 4:47:55 PM | | Sauces were a love of mine once. I am sure if Steve or someone started a thread about sauces, I could help. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 11/30/2005 10:29:02 PM | The first thing I learned to cook was eggs. I cooked eggs everyday for about two years...I was 15. I still love to eat them. Though I have added a few more things to the menu since then.
Next thing I learned to cook was "pasta" in those days...macaroni...and tomato sauce. I ate that meal for years and years and still make it today.
My mom was a great cook and baker. I am just a "great cook" ha! My sons (age 24) seem to think so anyway. One son cooks in a ribs joint and he loves his job. I love his job as it is helping him get through college.
I love food. I do like most anything especially hot spicy foods. My favorite thing lately is wasabi. I could eat it by the spoonful. There are some new almonds out on the market they are flavored soy and wasabi...i buy them often...delicious.
I have made up some dishes and continue to do that today.
I watch the cooking channels and read a lot recipes. My kids are grown and on their own so I have no need to cook for anyone but myself and of late don't feel like the mess to clean so I have went to back the simplicity cooking of my youth on most days. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/1/2005 10:25:47 AM | I think I did a sauce thread with little comment. I even went into mother/ daughter sauces one time and nobody added or asked for more. Just like my ill-fated cheese making thread. I thought there would have been a greater interest.
I feel so alone! 
OK, no thread, but I know I rolled out mother sauces and I heard crickets chirping afterwards. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/3/2005 2:35:25 PM | | I grew up in an Italian family. We were always cooking and so I learned by helping and cooking for myself from the age of 5. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/3/2005 3:32:24 PM | I was always a so-so cook, I put a meal on the table anyway. After I found myself divorced, re-entering the workforce, 3 hungry kids, a love of fine dining and NO funds to support it, I started branching out and experimenting with everything. If I saw or heard of a dish that I wanted to try, I hunted up a recipe and went for it. If it flopped I kept trying.
Now I am considered to be a pretty good cook, and it is something I enjoy. I almost hate spending the money to eat out, because I can usually do it better myself at home.
But I still can't duplicate my mom's cornbread stuffing!!! Oh well, I'll keep trying .....  | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/3/2005 3:44:34 PM | | 2 years of cooking classes here. My sister wanted to join but was nervous-so i said i'd go with her just to make her feel at ease. Well, I loved the classes and my sister dropped out. I did sign up for 3 more classes per week,for another year-but my employer changed me from nights to afternoons. I always played with the idea of being a chef-one who could all the fancy stuff. That would be pretty wild! | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/3/2005 7:15:16 PM | | learned to cook in the woods, next to roaring streams and rivers, always tasted real fine, but i think only because it was out there in nature and i was always real hungry. on a stove cooking has been a trial and error endevour, along with the food channel. if i cooked something and it was horrible, i would feed the dog. i have buried seven dogs in the last five years. thanks for asking | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/4/2005 2:54:56 AM | Well it started at about 5, helping one of my grandmas bake. My Grandma Jennie taught me how to make the most amazing sticky buns. when ever I visited her she would wake me up at 5 in the morning so we could bake buns, and make breakfast for the family. When I visited my other Grandma we used to make fresh bread, so while I was there It would be like a factory and I just loved it. We would make about 30 loaves to take back to my house after the visit was over.
Aside from that it was me cooking meals for myself starting about the age of 9. Mostly because my mother didn't know how to cook anything that didn't come out of a box, like KD or she made the most horrific things like Spam meatloaf (ewwwwww).
So i started playing in the kitchen and learning how to do things like make French onion soup, first from stock cubes. Then I made my first stock, and well never has a boullion cube entered my house since. From there I just kept on exploring new flavours and new things. I would read cookbooks like they were novels, retaining as much a I could. After that I joined the military, and i'm not sure about American Mess Halls but in Canada we have some damn good food served to our soldiers. That just made me love it more. i got out of the military and off to cooking school I went, first in our nations capital, Ottawa, then onto Le Cordon Bleu in Paris for some more advanced courses. | |
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| How did you learn to cook?
Posted: 12/7/2005 5:37:21 AM | I was in the gulf after the first gulf war, building up a country that had been bombed to bits. We had a lot of indians working for us who were treated pretty shabbily whilst we were out having the life of kings.
This didn't settle with my conscience so whatever we caught when we went sea fishing I took to the indian camps. I also taught them to play pool. In return I learnt to cook Indian, chineese, thai, jap, malaysian, philipino, vietnamese etc from scratch.
I took this interest back to the UK 2 years later & filled in the gaps in my knowledge of trdaditional britich cooking as well as basic European skill, mexican etc. | |
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