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Giulia
10-25-2009, 12:12 PM
Salut ! (as we say in French to greet on an informal way)
My name is Giulia, I'm 23 years old. I was bord and I've been raised in France.

I'm not a total beginner, but nearly ! I know how to cook good pasta (taught by my Italian friend Anna), risotto, eggs, some fruit compotes, but that's all ! I have nearly everything to learn in cooking.

I've started cooking a few weeks ago, in order not to become too crazy with administrative stuff (and they make you easily driving nuts !).
I've learnt well before cooking... languages ! Besides French, my mother tongue, I've learnt Italian, English and Modern Greek (mom was looking at me like if I were totally mad when I told her that I choose Modern Greek as 3rd language for (French) High School, and when she learnt that the only solution was at distance, she was driving nuts ! But with my 18/20 at the oral exam, where you have to explain a text (all in Greek, and the cherry on the sundae is that the examinator chose one of the most difficult text I've studied, even the most difficult one (because of plenty of idioms, some of them you hear only in Crete, a Greek island) : I was in panic when he told me he had chosen this text for me to comment !), and explaining a text in Greek is even more difficult than translating it because you have to know the technical terms to comment the text, mom was proud and regretted to look at me like if I were crazy when I told her that I've chosen Modern Greek as 3rd foreign language). So I'm able to read a recipe in these 4 languages :)
I would have liked to become an interpreter, but with my Single Sided Deafness, I had to give up at the moment (French, and sometimes European laws are quite stupid !)....

ChefToddMohr
10-25-2009, 04:12 PM
Guilia-
Welcome to the forum. I just gave you a rather lengthy reply about measuring cups.
You sound exactly like thousands of people all over the world that I've taught to cook without recipes. I'd love to have you as a student. You sound like an extremely smart person with a hunger for knowledge. You'd be perfect.

I look forward to conversing with you. If I can answer any cooking questions on your culinary journey, I'd be glad to. In the meantime, if you'd like to learn to cook without leaving your home, check out my website.

To your culinary success!

Giulia
10-25-2009, 04:35 PM
Thanks Todd :)
Hunger of knowledge... I don't have the smallest idea of what I'd had done without it !
Smart... humm.... some people told me I'll always live with charity since I'll never be able to find a job and keep it :eek: (these people have a confetti instead of brain (an Italian expression, but the meaning is very easy to find ;) ) under the skull ! Because from them, I heard so many stupidities that I can't count them !)

That's a shame I live too far from the States to benefit from your classes :( (if you find a way on how to escape with French stupid politics and their stupid law, it'll be great, because for the moment, I don't have the slightest idea on how to manage, and I was born and I've been raised in this country !)

Big Daddy's House
10-25-2009, 05:55 PM
Welcome to the forum, Giulia!

lesley
10-26-2009, 01:54 PM
Welcome Giulia,
I love Italian food too!!

I think you'll enjoy it here...:)

Big Daddy's House
10-26-2009, 03:02 PM
I do also! My favorite is Veal Parm with some ziti or spaghetti on the side. The next one is spaghetti and meatballs.

Giulia
10-26-2009, 07:04 PM
Thanks for your warm welcome ! :)
I am still into budgeting, as before buying, I always make apothecary counts....

Big Daddy's House
10-27-2009, 01:01 AM
You're welcome!