Arri wrote on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:44:33 -0600:


> Kswck wrote:
>>
>> Parent, other family member, friend? Or did you have to learn
>> on your own?
>>
>> Mom boiled every veggie to death. Figure ALL pork must be
>> cooked in a fry pan covered with mustard and sauerkraut, till
>> it's dead, beef so rare it would moo and chicken ONLY in a
>> pressure cooker, or Shake-N-Bake. (Don't get me started on
>> her soups-she believed food was to keep you alive...taste?
>> 'You want that too? Why?').
>>
>> Learned on my own.

I guess I drew up knowing how to make breakfast fried stuff and probably
learned from my mother. She wasn't a bad cook and used the freshest
ingredients but tended to cook vegetables to death.

Until I shared a house and also all the chores with 3 others, I'd never
really tried to cook apart from barbequing steaks and corn in the nearby
national park. My future wife was not very complimentary about my steaks
:-) However, I'm a chemist of sorts so I bought a book and my first meal
in the shared house was not unsuccessful.
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not