Go Blue! Michigan Grad living in Atlanta. Huge football and Hockey fan. Go Wings. Also have three dogs and a cat in the family, in addition to my partner. Biggest pet peeve: cooks on all recipes who change a recipe significantly, then rate the recipe poorly when it does not work out. Keep ratings to the actual recipe unless your changes IMPROVE the result. (Stepping down from soap box now) Chinese and Italian. Mixing recipes from different cultures Mom taught me how to cook when I was in my early teens. I quickly learned that if I volunteered to cook, I got to eat my favorites more often. I was fortunate that mom was very adventerous in her cooking. Our family had a large number of recent imigrant families as friends. We were eating Chinese, Thai and Indian food in the early 70's. My first thanksgiving for both my family and my partners. I have been fortunate that I have had no major tragedies. I have had to double or triple recipies when I have been trying to move to fast, and add the incorrect amounts.