"I was 32 when I learned to cook, until then, I just ate." Julie Childs

There is a proper way to heat a pan and it starts by enrolling in an online cooking school trial period for 14 days. Yes, in order to know how to heat a pan, you have to know there is a wrong way.

Inspired shamelessly by Julie and Julia, I'm going to learn to cook in front of your very eyes. Incredibly, like Julia, I do like to eat and I am good at it. Twins!

I checked out two crappy books from the library. I chose these books really carefully: one by its beautiful pictures and the other by the word "college" in it. The beautiful picture book has a list of 20 ingredients per recipe and the college book is for the student at COS, living at home, eating mostly peanut butter. Luckily for me, Amazon has suggested some better books, and the library has offered to track them down from Chinatown and text me when they're in. Hopefully they'll be there tomorrow as their status says they're in transit! The library is right by the farmer's market at the Civic Center. So, two birds with one stone: sweet patats from the market and a quickie to la biblioteca.