I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
