Hey there. My name is Kristen. I'm a 16 year old girl who loves to cook and I hope I can become a wonderful cook someday. I'm on my way, taking training classes and applying for culinary colleges such as Johnson and Wales and the Art Institute. Other than that, I'm just your typical teenager. I work at a coffee shop and love it. I love life. And food. I started out loving to cook pastries and breads, but as I became more familiar with cooking, i've come to like cooking gourmet, paying specail attention to detail. I love to take pictures of all my 'art', and always love to learn from my mistakes. Actually, my family isn't very big on cooking. I guess the family recipe of the famous meatloaf is a worthy tradition, but who knows. I love cooking desserts. I usually make desserts and when I have extras, I basically have my neighbors pleading for them. Oh boy. One time I was trying a new way of cooking cheesecake, you know, with the water bath and all. Well the water seeped into my cheesecake and made it horribly soggy. Uck. And that was the cheesecake I was supposed to present to my cooking teacher.