At what age and from whom did you learn to cook?

Hello my friend PeacefulWmn9 Ji, Well, my mother introduced me with Kitchen -work, when I was just seven yrs old, starting with preparing tea. My hubby is equally good cook and he always supports me. It is his hobby. He gets sick, if he does not visit kitchen. Later on I picked up knitting wool and further stiching. I used to make my own cloths. Apart from these, I have bad habit of reading anything before going to sleep at night. Let me see, if I can bring some photoes from my kitchen, where my hubby is cooking "Purries" May god bless You and have a great time.

hello karen I learned cooking at 17 , and my mother learned me .. she is a wrokoer mother and she needed sometimes a help in making dinner or what so ever :D Now am a good cook :D have a great time

Dear friend, I do not exactly remember at what age I do start to learn cooking, still I am sure that I had learnt after my age of 14 and I learn it from own experience in the kitchen while helping my mother.

My mom encouraged us to help out in the kitchen from a very young age. I think at age five she began letting me stir batter or mix ingredients together to begin teaching basic things. As I got older, the amount I was allowed to help increased until I could cook fairly well as a teenager. Now my daughter is four, I let her mix the ingredients together if I make cake or cookies or pancakes or even fudge. She enjoys helping and she's learning what goes into each recipe slowly. She's also learning how it's supposed to 'look' before it's finished with being stirred.

I remember that someone or anyone influence me how to cook are my mother and helpers whom i keep on watching them what they're doing at the kitchen particularly at the stove when i was 6 years old, i was 8 back then when the first dish that i cook by myself was bowl of instant noodles (i have a feeling that you're going to laugh at me), after that i'm starting to help my mother to cook and prepare meals from time to time ever since (i'm also the one who cooks the rice as well). And the only ones who can cook were me and my 3rd younger sister while my other three siblings are just newbies.

When i was a kid, i never have interest in cooking but i always help my mother in doing so. When i reached college, I was influenced by my friends & significant other in cooking since i started to love discovering new dishes from any restaurant that i bumped into :)

When I was a little girl, around 8 or 9, I started baking cookies on my own. I followed recipes from the oatmeal container, etc. and had them waiting for my mother when she came home from work. Aside from that, I really learned to cook when I moved out and got married. I was 22 years old and I really didn't have much of a clue as to how to cook. My poor husband. But after 20 years I am a great cook now! Everyone loves my food and my husband always tells me that I should open up a restaurant as we would make lots of money and we would never go hungry! Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!

at the age of 10,i learned to put tea and coffee from my mother and at the age of 15 i learned egg curry and omlette from my mother. other than that i didn;t learned anything in my mother's house before marriage. after marriage i learned all recipes by experimenting myself seeing in tv or cook books like u . but now i am a good cook and i can do cooking for 30 people like that.

I learned at the age of 10 from my mother and the first thing I was taught was spaghetti sauce.

Hi Karen...I learned to cook at a very young age because back when I was growing up that was what was expected from any young lady that had any intention of getting married one day. My mom taught me and I was able to do just about anything she could do by the time I was 11 or 12. Kids now a days are taught how to use the microwave and that is how most of their meals are made. I have so many disagreements with my grandaughter who just turned 14 about how things were when I was growing up and all that was expected of us and she seems to have no interest in learning any household chores at all. I told her I hope when she gets out on her own she has a job that pays enough for her to have a maid or she finds a husband that knows how to cook if not I don't know what she will do. flutterby

I learn at 13 I guess not sure about thatmi first meal done by myself was at 16 I think ..my aunt.. was amazing at cooking.. and my grandma.. help me also.. my family are from the old school.. in which they teach girls to cook , clean the house , different tasks..to become a good woman..

My first cooking lessons were ofcourse from my mother an di started to cook from the age of 11. It was more like my mother would give me the instruction and would simply follow them without saying a word. THen the next inspiration was my husband who loves to cook. He took me through many health and easy to cook recipes. My cooking has more of the north indian dash to the flavor where as my husband typically cooks south indian. So there is a good blend when cooking for the family. Then the world is my teach now - i still like to learn from the internet or cookbooks. When friends get in their lunch at office all of us share our foods and the recipes too :)

learning always starts from home, and same as you, it is mother who first taught me how to cook. and then mom, started a little business and that was where we were more trained. i also love experimenting using the cookbook. so far, so good. ann