in reply to I mostly learned to cook from:

... watching my wife. Not that she'd ever let me try...

On the topic of cooking, Iron Chef America on the Food Network is an absolute hoot! My favorite competitions involved squid (one large cephalopod made a break for it, and headed down the stairs away from the chefs. I was hoping they'd give him clemency...) and cuttlefish (one did not go gently into that Good Night, and snipped the finger of the chef trying to boil him).