How many AudiogoNers are amateur chefs?


I know this is WAY off topic, but I am curious as to how many of you folks fancy yourselves as amateur chefs. I ask this as I just completed my first day of culinary school. This is not a school for training pros (we meet on Fridays for the day), but for those folks who want to become better cooks, learning to prepare menus, pairing foods and wines, etc. I still have my full-time profession, so this is for home.
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There is only one hobby that supercedes audio for me, and that is food. My only regret in life is that I don't spend nearly as much time as I would like cooking or listening.

The passion that comes from really getting in to the moment of cooking is something that is practically without equal. It's a very ZEN kind of thing. Something where you are totally immersed in the moment, and the rest of the world becomes forgotten. I can't compare it to anything else, but I can correlate it to there being perhaps no higher means of showing someone you love them. You pour your heart, soul, love, and entire being into it.

Despite feeling this way, and having a lot of people in my family in the food business(hey, we're East Coast Italians!), I have always made it clear that it was never something I wanted to make a career of. I have always feared that mixing something one loves with work is a recipe to poison the well.

Good eats!!!