What is your first culinary memory?

[Kimmie]

Hmmmmm, I have many memories but amongst my fondest culinary experiences is when my grandmother allowed me to help her roll the croissants, only the plain ones though. It's quite a technique (as several of you know) and I was only 5

[chefboy2160]

Cooking with my great grandma was so much fun . Pies and breads and soups and cookies . I got hooked at a young age .
Thanks great grandma .

[Pastachef]

Your grandma is a lucky woman,Chefboy. I want so much for my food loving grandson to be a chef, but he wants to be a lawyer.

[Isa]

Any culinary memories I have that involves my grandmother belong in the nightmare category.

[Athenaeus]

Your grandma is a lucky woman,Chefboy. I want so much for my food loving grandson to be a chef, but he wants to be a lawyer.

Courage Pastachef! I know how dissapointed you must feel, maybe when he will grow up he will change his mind! Tell him that Chefs in our days are not just admired but they are worshiped!!

Now that Christmas approach I cannot help of thinking my grandmother and her endless stories that have to do with cookies' preparation!!

But as Isa put it , when it comes to culinary memories, those that involve my mother belong to the nightmare category.
She cooked NOTHING to keep herself thin

But why are they in the "nightmare" category, Isa?

[Rachel]

Athenaeus, did your mother keep herself thin, and was it worth the sacrifice?

[Flash]

When I was four, I attempted to sample a hot, red, syrupy liquid boiling on the stove. It was October, and my mother was making candied apples for our family. As I dipped my finger into the molten sugar, a piercing shriek escaped my lips. My mother nearby immediately plunged my hand into an ice-cold water bath to stop the burning. Later, when asked why I had done such a thing I replied, "it looked so good. I just wanted to taste it." I consider this first conscious effort to taste food, my initiation into the world of cooking and culinary arts. YeeOUCH!

[Pastachef]

I guess it will be okay, Athanaeus. I DID want him to have that worship that chefs get. Lawyers get a hard time. But I think his three year old sister may be the chef. We can't keep her out of the kitchen. She's already fascinated with cooking, and it seems to be on her mind 24/7

[glutz]

Other than food, late at night on the coal stove
was the wok with it's black treacly substance bubbling away.

It was my grandfater purifying his opium,
the aroma from his smoking is something out of this world.

Can enjoy it. whenever I'm in the Far East, along the back streets, my nose tells me when and where someone is chasing dragons

[Peachcreek]

At age 3, dumping the contents of the kitchen cupboards into the bathtub trying to make "Jello".

[Pastachef]

How cute is that, Peachtree!