I have been cooking since I took a co-ed cooking class in high school. I then worked in a couple of different chinese restaurants while in college. New Yorkers love Italian and Chinese so I have learned to cook these specialties. Get the whole gang together on a weekend in June and grill vegetables with chicken or shellfish and toss with pasta. Trying to find decent and inexpensive seafood. I got my brother to bring live lobsters from the coast one Christmas and made lobster bisque for the first time! Wonderful I can't think of any major tragedy but I have burned the grilled bread more than once!