in reply to I mostly learned to cook from:

No one has mentioned Nigella Lawson. I would gladly learn to cook if Nigella would teach me.

chexmix pours bowl of ... something in a box, long's it's not "Ka-Boom!" I cannot advocate putting something called "Ka-Boom!" in my stomach.

UPDATE: I guess it goes without saying that the fact "Ka-Boom!" cereal sported an image of a circus clown on the box made it even less palatable than it would have been otherwise.

UPDATE: 'Nuff said.