I am a 50 something divorced man. I grew cooking alongside my mom. She cooked then like Paula Dean cooks now. I've been cooking since I was around 9 or 10. During my almost 20 year marriage (2 months short)I was the cook of the family. The ex told me that she could cook but I never actually saw her do it. I love to cook southern fried chicken, catfish, hushpuppies, cornbread, enchaladas both cheese and green chile and chicken, pork chops, steaks both on the BBQ and stove-top, banana bread, zuchinni bread, pumpkin bread, chicken and dumplings, all sorts of soups and stews (my kid's favorite was the 'whatever's in the fridge' soup), pies, home baked bread, and whatever else I feel like trying. Trying to cook just like my mom. Coming close, kinda, to cooking like my mom. Burnt bread would be the worse. What a lot of time wasted!