The Importance Of Cooking In My Life

At what age is it acceptable for a mother to stop cooking and for a child to start? For me it happened when I was ten. I would come home and there was no longer any food for me to eat for dinner. As a spoiled child who did not know how to do anything, it was hard for me when my mother stopped cooking, however it was my inability to do anything that drove me to want to learn how to cook and care for myself. Learning how to cook changed my life because it taught me to take responsibility for myself and it taught me independence.

When I had first began learning how to cook it was very difficult for me because I did not know how to do anything due to my pampered upbringing, but I was determined to learn. I began with simple things like attempting to make eggs and ham with toast, and I failed each attempt. However, a few setbacks would not stop me so whenever I had the chance I would question my older sisters on how they cooked and used the knowledge they shared with me in my attempts at cooking. It was difficult for me to do so as unlike my sister, I had been spoiled and never had to do anything. But I would not let anything get in my way and continues on. By that

It is the one thing I have never regretted in my whole life. I learned how to cook slowly and had many failures, as I was still a child and did not have the proper skills to do anything yet. I learned how to cook through determination I never even knew I had. I learned the skills I needed to work around the kitchen through much difficulty and then I used those skills to learn how to make the dishes I grew up with that mother used to cook, and I used those skills to learn how to make new recipes. However, these skills were very difficult, and at my age, near impossible to acquire. Had it not been for the advice I was given by my sisters and whatever it was I managed to pry out of my mom, I would not have been able to acquire this