I am a 25yr old Italian male from NY and I am in the Navy right now stationed in VA. My passion for life is my wife and son and cooking. I am an old fashion Italian so I love to cook Italian foods. I love making pasta dishes and cookies and pastries. Everything I make I learned from my mother and she learned from her mother. I am still learning but I am trying to know what spices go best with the foods. Also to think up a meal and put it together and not look at a recipe card. It is one thing to look at the recipe and cook, but when you don't need a recipe in front of you to cook, that is when I feel you are a professional cook. Being able to understand food.