I learned to cook while a student in the Co-Ops at Stanford. Given an industrial kitchen with a bizarre array of (usually inappropriate) tools, I can single-handedly crank out a three-course meal (with vegetarian option) for 50 hungry college kids. I can even do it by improvising if I don't have all the ingredients I need. I like vegetarian stuff, usually, but I am not a complete vegetarian and sometimes I like to play around with various meats. My mom is from Spain. I've learned a lot of her recipes, but I still have a few (paella, jelly roll) that I need to learn.