It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.
Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
I guess I fell into cooking.
Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.