I learned how to cook watching my mom and getting practice making korean dinners before they got home from work during high school.
I learned how to cook non-korean foods during college (ie survival) and while dating DH... I didn't really cook for ex's lol. It was fun trying new recipes, etc.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
I learned from watching my parents. Learned some stuff from watching food network too.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I learned by trial and error after moving in with dh.
nectarine / 2274 posts
From my mom, she would always cook with us when we were younger. Then as I get older, I would do all the prep work for her.
pomegranate / 3872 posts
Watching and helping my mom. She'd always tell me why she was doing what she was doing and let me help. Then in hs and college I would cook for everybody once every few weeks or so and help with holidays.
kiwi / 645 posts
I basically taught myself and watched cooking shows. I also learned a few recipes from my mom.
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
My nana. We have to watch and cook with her because recipes and measurements do not exist.
I just called her over the weekend to ask how she makes pastina & it was the longest and most frustrating conversation. She was very worried about the size of my sauce pan.
pomegranate / 3983 posts
It was a process. I watched/helped mom growing up, then had to figure it out when I moved out. But being a SAHM really upped my skills. I always could follow a recipe but now can make pretty much anything and I like trying out new dishes.
pear / 1998 posts
Alton Brown. I think I've watched every episode of "Good Eats" and have cooked through many of his cookbooks.
I remember cooking with my mom, but she didn't really like to do it. I also remember making one specific dish with my grandmother regularly, but she didn't really "teach" me how to cook.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
When I moved in by myself I started to take interest in it, I guess eating the same 3 meals will do that to a person! My mom used to try to get us to cook with her and I never wanted too. Now I enjoy trying new recipes and it's a hobby.
pomegranate / 3272 posts
I was a super picky eater and figured out that if I made dinner for the family, it would always be something I would eat. 
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I started teaching myself when I was about 20. It took a couple years before I felt really comfortable, though.
grapefruit / 4582 posts
Mostly watching my mom. I'm still not a very good cook. I would say I have maybe 4 "go to" dishes that are tasty and I can cook with ease and comfort. I think one day when the kids are in school I would love to take a cooking course during the day and really learn about building sauces, flavors, and knife skills!
clementine / 849 posts
I'm self taught. Youtube, cooking shows, cookbooks, the internet, etc
cherry / 224 posts
watching my parents/grandparents cook, helping them as I got older. I also lived alone far from family and friends for a period of time and used cooking as a way to feel closer to those that I was so far from. After that I started collecting cookbooks and trying new recipes.
pomegranate / 3503 posts
Learned from watching my mom as well. I also had cooking duties once I was in high school. From then on, I just followed recipes and watched a lot of cooking shows.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
Out of necessity. I started getting dinner started for my mom when I was probably 10. Then probably by the time I was 12 I was completely in charged of dinner.
After DH and I started dating cooking together and experimenting became our thing.
grapefruit / 4649 posts
Watching my dad and aunt, experimenting, following new recipes and watching cooking shows. Definitely a hodge podge of methods!
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Recipes I found online. I want to learn to cook like my dad and learn all his recipes, but it's all by "taste". I can't season by taste. I need written recipes!
grapefruit / 4085 posts
My mom - and I still ask her a lot of questions if I'm unsure about something.
nectarine / 2936 posts
Some from my mom and a little from my grandma, but mostly trial and error.
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
By watching ridiculous amounts of the Food Network, and reading cookbooks.
Yep...as a kid, I used to take cookbooks out from the library and just read them. My nerd is showing.
eggplant / 11408 posts
I learned at first by watching my mom!
Then later, lots of reading cookbooks and experimenting when I lived on my own. I had to pretty much re-learn how to cook when I got sick with my stomach issues after college, and since then, I've really learned a lot.
@redsmarties: love that
honeydew / 7444 posts
@redsmarties: my first book I took out from my third grade classroom was a cookbook! I made cookies...vanilla extract? Is that like vanilla ice cream?
I watched a lot of food network (back when it was good and not filled with the crap you have now) and read a ton of cook books and websites. I was pretty obsessed. I also took cooking classes here and there.
nectarine / 2272 posts
Rachel ray. No joke. I used to watch 30
Minute meals every night when i was in college.
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