For the Love of Cooking
Listening to my favorite radio program recently, this question was posed: Where does your love of cooking come from? Callers were citing their moms, grandmas, aunts.... Telling stories of learning family dishes from homelands far away, passing on tricks and tips through generations, preserving hand written recipes by great great so-and-so to keep traditions alive. It was all so romantic. So I was digging deep, trying to remember that moment, the meal, the person. Visions of hamburger helper , instant mashed potatoes , meatloaf , and TV dinners popped in my head. As a child of the 70's, and 80's, and a mother who, bless her heart, just doesn't have a passion for the kitchen, I concur that my love of cooking has just come from within. I am basically an entirely self taught home cook. There is a cooking " gene " in the family, it's just that the other gene-carriers live at least 2 states away, and always have. ...