{"id":17788,"date":"2022-03-13T20:56:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T00:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/?p=17788"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:57:59","slug":"learning-to-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/2022\/learning-to-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Learning to Cook\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The first thing I learned to cook was eggs, sunny side up. I was so proud of myself, I ate them every day that week and was thrilled with the opportunity to make them for anyone else. Eventually, I baked cookies and cakes. We\u2019d gobble down the warm ginger snaps by the dozen. And we couldn\u2019t wait to devour \u201ccherry guck\u201d, a shortbread cake covered in syrupy cherries with dollops of dough scattered on top. I tried making pizza a few times but the crust was always so hard, it would cut the inside of my mouth. As much as I loved to cook and bake, if my mom happened to come into the kitchen, she\u2019d freak out at the mess. I preferred to clean up after I had finished cooking so things did look chaotic. She\u2019d yell and scream and threaten never to let me use her kitchen again, ruining the fun I\u2019d been having. But somehow my love for cooking and baking never died. I prepare food for my family and friends as my gift to show I love them. And still I don\u2019t clean up till I\u2019m done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing I learned to cook was eggs, sunny side up. I was so proud of myself, I ate them every day that week and was thrilled with the opportunity to make them for anyone else. Eventually, I baked cookies and cakes. We\u2019d gobble down the warm ginger snaps by the dozen. And we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17795,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions\/17795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lifelong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}