Who taught you how to cook?

my mom taught me how to cook. when i was a kid and used to see mom doing the cooking got curious to know about cooking. first she taught me simple things like how to make tea, then bread-butter for breakfast. then came the serious stuffs like cooking rice, chapatis and curries. I really liked adding new things to curries, sometime they mage curry better and sometimes they just spoiled the flavor. All in all it was great fun, i still do bit of cooking on Sundays and still try new combinations.

My parents, but mostly youtube i practice a bit.

I don't cook very well but the only thing hubby says I am good at is italian food as I grew up in an italian falimly (stepdad) his mom taught me how to make sauce so anything with red sauce I am good at but not much else so I guess when I have time I need to learn how to cook other things

Like majority members here, i learned my first cooking lesson from my mother. My mother is a great cook because she can modified and cook anything as she like and still tastes very delicious. Besides that, my mother had lots of cook books which makes me have the chance to learn to cook more many types of dishes. But, i learned to make fried meat tastes deliciously from my father. He taught me how to mix the sauces to make the fried meat tastes very delicious.

I learned to cook when I was about ten years old and my mother teach me. I the beginning I started to cook the easiest things until I learned to cook something bigger and harder. In my family we are to kids I and my mother and we always helped to our mother to cook the dinner. Now I am about 17 years old and I know very much for cooking and I have tried many things to cook. In the future my plans is to become for cook chef.

It is just like saying you know the song but the song does not want you to sing. And so in cooking there are those who cook but does not taste good and, there are those who cook even without them tasting but ends up good. I think cooking is like an instinct that is already adapted if you were born to be a cook, and to others by mere experience are developed into being a cook as they are used to it. I learned cooking as I observed my father who was a cook then, and also from my mother who only cooks simple dishes and as she always experiment ending up in a very delicious recipe of her own. I do collect recipes too and watch videos to follow some techniques and arts in cooking.

I learned to cook when I graduated from college and found the passion for it. My we haven't tried grandmother taught me how to cook starting with soupy viands because I already know the basics of cooking. I also learn how to cook some foods from recipes that we haven't tried eating yet.

Hi. stanley777. I learned how to cook from watching my aunt and my grandmother cook for us, when I was younger. But, honestly, I learned how to cook on my own. I learned by making my food taste unique by learning tricks that make my foods that I have prepared delicious.

Believe it or not, I got interested in cooking from watching Graham Kerr on the TV show "The Galloping Gourmet". That's kind of what got me started and I have picked up a lot of tips from other cooking shows along the way too. Another show, "Wok With Yan" got me started with wok cooking and stir fry. I also picked up some things from my mom of course but mostly, it was the TV shows. I have a few specialties but mostly it's just everyday dishes but I certainly don't go hungry.

Some good recipes are from my mother and friends but most of my cooking is from books. I have some special recipes taken from Italian reviews. I like their cooking. All ingredients seem healthy and the food they cook is tasty. I also have some old recipes from my grandmother.

I cooked when i was a student to save money and also got bored eating outside and such. Cooking student bachelor style for me is simple, basically simple wok and throw everything inside and after cooked throw everything inside a bowl or plate which is more convenient and less hassle stuffs to wash later.Basically learn from online and tv show.Cooking is pleasure when done in leisure with no pressure or expectation.

I remember when I was a kid about 5 years old, I always watching my mom when she's cooking our meals. We are cooking in an old style kitchen using woods others called it as dirty kitchen. The first thing I learned from my mom is how to cook rice when I was 6 years old. During my college days, I also learned some ways of cooking from my Aunt and my sisters.

When I saw your post, I racked my brains out to recall when was the first time I cooked. I still have not remembered it. What I remembered though was that my father is the regular cook of the family,while my mother is good at making desserts. I think I first learned to cook when I was 7 or 8 years old and the food was rice considering that rice is the regular food on our dining table. I learned more about cooking from cookbooks and from the internet.

I learned how to cook all by myself with some help from cookbooks. And it was an adventure to my tastebuds and the people who have fallen victims of my cooking attempts. Well practice makes perfect...in cooking i reached only being good at it tho. :p

It's a shame that I don't know how to cook. When I was young, my parents didn't want me to cook because I'm afraid of cooking meat. If I cooked at home, they could only have vegetables to eat.Haha! And I often got my fingers hurted when using a knife to cut those cooking materials. Now I'm learning cooking from my husband because he don't want me to eat instant noodles when he's not home.

When i was a young girl at home i didnt have time for hanging out in the kitchen. I learned all from recipes and cookbooks. Anyways its a neverending learning process. Always learning new recipes. I collect them onto disk. I call it the NeverEnding CookBook.

Neither of my parents cooked, so the art was foreign to me for awhile. My grandmother taught me some things, but mostly because I asked to learn. I learned how to make scrambled eggs, chocolate malts, dough, among other various cooking things (such as what it means to "simmer" something, how to tenderize meat, etc.). At twelve, I went vegetarian. Since my mom survived on foods revolving around cheese and bread and my dad was a full meat and potatoes type of person, I then taught myself how to cook. I taught myself how to bake, make veggie lasagnas, vegan birthday cakes, how to make soups, entrees, and side dishes from scratch. I liked cooking once I knew how, but I wasn't ever patient enough to wait while food cooked before I ate it. I met my husband when I was just sixteen, and taught him how to cook within our first few years together. Thankfully, that's now one of his chores of the house...he has the patience! The things I learned to cook from others before I went vegetarian (and then vegan a few years later) are now things I no longer need to know. So I guess you could say that everything I know and put to use today, I taught myself. I'm so glad I went vegetarian, because otherwise, I doubt I would know how to make more than a TV dinner today.

I don't think anyone really taught me how to cook. Maybe that is why I am not a very good cook, and I don't enjoy it. My parents got divorced when I was 8 and I stayed with my father. So it wasn't my mother. My father cooked for awhile and then I took over. I watched my father for a little while, but I guess I just learned from trial and error.

I learned to cook (a little) the same way I learned to read (a lot). First, by watching. Then, by doing ... Practice, Practice, Practice! `Tis a pillar of Buddhism, so foundational it is! So my mom & dad taught me a lot, and my grandma (my dad's mom). The basic lesson is 'patience when all things are in place,' with 'the proper places for things' (salt in the boiling water, layers of toppings on the pizza, proper mixing of ingredients before laying them under the heat to mingle, etc.) being added to that base.

I learn to cook from my mom, not just cooking but also baking and doing food garnishing. I remember when I was in grade school, my mom did not allow us to play outside, instead she wants us to join and help her in shaping cookies. after baking we are all happy eating the outcome of our shaped cookies. Cooking is the best way to have a bonding time when your family.