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Both my parents are good cooks, but didn't teach us so I taught myself through trial and error. No real tips, though. I just kept trying and following recipes and eventually something just clicked and it became very instinctual. I think learning what different herbs and spices complement each other (and what dishes they work best in) is a great place to start.

Lot's of trial and error!

I cooked a little growing up, but my parents didn't teach me anything special. I did cook as play a lot in my adolescence though. We were allowed to experiment in the kitchen, which was so much fun!

Not a great cook by any means, but I started out using cookbooks that focused on technique and explaining reasons for doing things as well as simple recipes that I could memorize by doing over and over again.

My mom taught me to make all our usual family dinners. She was a work outside the home mom, so once my sister and I knew how to do it, we could prep stuff when we got home from school or before school in the morning. Once I knew the basics it was relatively easy to expand on that by reading recipes, or mimicking food I ate in restaurants for flavours that complement each other well.

My mother is a fantastic cook, I think she has made 3 meals a day for over 40 years. She comes from a family of good cooks.

She has a repertoire of things that she knows how to do very well and I was always around in the kitchen, so I learned what to do. She's a terrible cooking teacher, by the way, so I just learned by watching, not by any actual instruction on her part.

I also learned by watching cooking shows and reading up on techniques and practicing.

I taught myself how to bake when i was 8, and a lot of it was trial and error.

My grandmother cooked all of our meals, so i learned from her. But when i was in university, my mom hired someone to give me private Korean cooking lessons. I also took some skills courses at the local college.

For the most part, i've improved my technique through books and videos, and of course, trial and error.

I was my mom's sous chef. I actually was cooking dinners by the time I was 8.

I stopped cooking in my early 20s/single days because it was a pain to cook for just me. I got over that and tried new things and now I'm a pretty decent cook.

My parents and Food Network

My mom is great cook but she didn't really like us working her kitchen. My grandma let me play around in her kitchen but she didn't teach me much, just let me experiment. In the end I think I taught myself through trial and error.

Recipes. I can't cook by "tasting". Unfortunately, all of my dad's delicious cooking is done by taste.... (>_<)