When did you learn to cook?

I like to cook and learned it at school -in home economics class. And I had to start practicing when I was about 16 as my mother got ill and I had to do the cooking in the house. I cannot say that I am a great cook but I can manage.

I learne dto cook at about when i was 14 yrs old. i had to cook a smom was away. i also like to cook

I can remember being about 6 years old and helping my grandfather cook his famous meatballs. He taught me how to cook all the Italian things - I started cooking with him at like I said about 6 and continued till I was around 19. He passed away when I was 20 that last year he couldn't do much cooking. When he was teaching me to cook - he was the cook I was the helper. As the years passed I learned to cook myself and the last year or so I cooked and he was the helper. My grandmother taught me to cook some things. She taught me a lot of American dishes like potato salad, a styles chicken, soups and more. My cousin taught me that you don't HAVE to defrost things - they just take longer to cook! She taught me a few things I still cook today. My mother was never really a cook but she taught me to make trays, orderve type things, appitizers and how to make every thing look pretty. Through the years I have learned to try new things when cooking, I have made a few of my own receipies, and figured out many new things. I would have to say the basics of cooking were learned through the above mentioned people but the real everyday stuff was self learned.

To say the truth, I still cannot cook any thing decent. Shall I say, I still have to do a lot of learning. The only preparation I can make really well at this time is to boil some water. That I think I do quite well ! LOL !

I knew how to make snaks and things like that but to really cook I had to learn in my 20s. Too bad my ex hated my cooking, but that is another story.

I've been cooking for as long as I can remember. My mother is Italian and both she and my grandmother, her mother, taught me to cook. My grandmother used to can a great deal of her own foods from my grandfather's garden. My grandfather was also a good cook, but he would make weird things like tripe (cow stomach), which us kids wouldn't eat. I don't even think my mother or my grandmother would eat that! But he also made a great clam chowder, which I loved. From the time I was in high school until I moved out of my parent's house, I cooked dinner every night. My mother went back to work when we were all out of elementary school and she didn't leave work until 6:00 P.M. If she had to come home and cook too, she wouldn't get out of the kitchen until after 8:00. It's only been in the last few years that I've branched out from the usual childhood meals we used to make. When my daughter was 5 she started watching The Food Channel. I thought this was kind of weird, but harmless. One day I sat down to watch with her and got hooked!. The reat, as they say, is history!! Now I have all kinds of cookbooks from various Food Channel stars and can make quite a variety of foods from all regions of the US and around the world. It's fun and now my 8 year old is learning, too!

I was learning how to cook ever since I was big enough to kneel on a kitchen chair and reach the table,around 5-6 yrs old. I spent almost every afternoon in the kitchen with my Mother helping her cook dinner. I would help her at all the holidays preparing hor'duerves, salad, dinner and the desserts. Thanksgiving and Christmas baking was the most fun. We always had a lot of fun and she never got mad at me for making a mess. It also got me out of doing the dishes too, I helped prepare dinner and set the table, way more fun than doing dishes. LOL. Because of my Mom, I love to cook and I teach me nieces and nephews how to cook too.