What cooking experience have you had?(more detailed is favored)?

Frank Crummell: Got married with bare minimum cooking experience.Had 4 kids and progressed, on my own, to making all sorts of foods from scratch.Got a job cooking at a hospital where I was trained as an inexperienced cook and I learned so much. Went from there to a small restaurant where I also was offered training as a complete novice. Was a chef at a bistro, bakery lunch counter, ended up being food service director (temporary) at a nursing home and then full time at a bakery/bistro/cafe.Had to retire due to arthritis but I miss it soooo much!...Show more

Alexandria Popik: I served my first commercial meal to a stranger in 1964. I have been in and out of the kitchen ever since. I was executive chef at 3 different restaurants and 1 country club throughout my career. I retired last year after 49 years of plying my craft. The restaurant I worked at sold, and I decided I didn't want to be involved with it any more.

Debora Rinderer: I started cooking dinner for ! my family when I was about 14 (mom worked). I have been cooking for well over half a century. I have catered many dinner parties in my home, some sit down and some buffet. I love cooking and find it to be fulfilling. My cooking includes foods from many cuisines including Italian, French, Eastern European, Indian, Middle Eastern, Greek and Asian. I used to do a lot of baking, but not so much anymore.

Andrew Sinatra: Learned to cook to some extent before I left home, enough to keep myself reasonably well fed. I left home at 17 and am now 61, and have been doing my own cooking since. I have worked in restaurants a couple of times, briefly, and worked for a caterer.

Beau Starcevic: I got tired of being the single guy who was asked to bring "Chips and plates" to events.I sat down and learned to bake cheesecakes. I progressed from a no-bake in a cracker crust pan to a 3 layer B-52, 3 different alcohol, nut and cookie crust baked in quarter size pans. I sell a fe! w a year.