No one cooks anymore.  People are too busy.  Prepared food is too easy and convenient these days.  Why bother with cooking?  People are cooking less and less and the skill of cooking is being lost to grocery store hot bars, freezer sections and restaurant fare.  

For instance, I have a friend, Becca, who is age 30.  Her mother never turned on their stove or oven.  Not even once.  She didn’t like the way food made the house smell, plus she was a working mom and her dad owned his own business.  Her family went out to eat every day to a restaurant.  Both lunch and dinner.  Becca said she loved to go to her grandmother’s for a home-cooked meal.  That was special to her.  

Becca decided to learn to cook.  I tried to think up some simple recipes for her to try.  I mentioned steaming vegetables.  She didn’t know what “steamed” meant.  I mentioned broiling salmon.  She had no clue.  This girl is not dumb.  She passed the CPA on the first try and has an MBA.  She simply wasn’t exposed to cooking, period.  She is not alone.  Becca is now enrolled in cooking classes and loves it.  She was always a foodie but just didn’t know how to put a meal together.  She has since learned the techniques of broiling and steaming and now supplies me with recipes that she has tried.  I hope this blog will help her and others just like her.  I hope to feature her as a cook sometime in the future.

I’m here to find out where all the cooks have gone.  Come along.