Learning to cook as an adult is a much different experience than what your family taught you growing up. The possibilities are endless and yet too often we take the easy way out choosing to purchase pre-cooked or pre-packaged foods.

This episode examines how you can discover a love for cooking with tips for getting started in self exploration with food. 

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Selected Links from the Episode

• Having More Time
• Doing Something Creative Every Week
• Broke Ass Gourmet
• Nom Nom Paleo
• 4-Hour Chef
• Cooking spices with Tim Ferriss
• The Kitchn
• Apartment Therapy

Show Notes

• The difference of learning to cook as an adult [03:15]
• Making food and cooking a passion [06:08]
• Viewing food as an experience versus viewing food as a necessity [06:58]
• The journey with food that Jean Dahlquist took [09:48]
• The difference between fresh personally bought and created food instead of store bought [14:03]
• Jesse Liebman and his journey with food [14:57]
• Leveraging the library and their cook books to open your world to cooking [23:09]
• Learning to use the bulk section of the grocery store [25:36]
• Wait for verification, see if things come up multiple times [23:56]
• Have alternatives to your original decision [26:26]
• GTS = Google that shit [27:17]
• Using the Nom Nom Paleo cookbook [28:25]
• The concepts from the 4-Hour Chef [30:18]
• Seasoning you food [33:39]
• The utilization of salt and pepper [34:02]
• Using the spices that start with ‘C’ [35:47]
• Learning cooking techniques with The Kitchn [37:32]
• Define your goals of what you what to create as a newfound cook [41:54]
• Explore as many things as you can that you create yourself instead of getting the pre-packed version [43:30]
• Find a friend that you can share the experience of cooking with [49:36]

People Mentioned

• Jean Dahlquist
• Michelle Tam
• Tim Ferris
• Robert Irvine