I am a female in my 50's. I have gone through times when I loved to cook, hated to cook, and back again. I love ethnic food and have been cooking Indian food recently. I love it. I love Thai food also but have not cooked it at home. Everyone loves my chicken and dumplings. I had people drive down from New Hampshire to where I lived in New York State with bags of chicken and carrots and celery and stood there in my doorway with big smiles on their faces. I have had three - First was my first meat loaf I ever made, I used so many bread crumbs it was terrible. My husband took it to his work and tried to feed it to the German Shepherd guard dog they had in the yard and the dog wouldn't eat it. Oops, out of space for the other two stories.