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If you are one of the many people who want to learn to cook, there are a few basic things you can do to reach your goal. First, have you started to cook simple items? Second, make a list of foods you really enjoy. Third, start looking at websites or cookbooks for recipes for foods your like.

The first step you need to take is to start cooking. Can you make ramen? What about instant oatmeal. If you can make those, you need to move onto something a bit more challenging. Can you cook spaghetti? How about adding some store bought tomato sauce? Try cooking a few of these fairly simple items. If you can handle these, try something else a little more challenging. You need to start getting in the kitchen and do some cooking.

The next step is pretty easy—make a list of things you like to eat!

For the third step you need to look at any cookbooks you have or just go to epicurius.com. What I want you to do now is look for recipes of things you like to eat. On the website just search for recipes. After you have found some recipes, start reading through them. Find a couple that don’t seem to challenging. While you read them, think of yourself following the steps and actually cooking the food in the recipe. If you can see yourself doing this, then that is a good recipe.

The fourth and final step is to take the recipes you set aside in step three and actually make that item or dish. Now you see why I wanted you to pick recipes that weren’t too challenging and that you could see yourself making. It is good to visual or see yourself following the steps in the recipe and completing them.

Now read through your chosen recipe and get all the ingredients (you might have to go to the store) and get all the utensils you think you will need and set them where you can access them easily. Now start cooking! Your first try might not be successful or you might do great. The key is to keep working at it and practicing. Once you have mastered a recipe and feel confident with making it well, move onto the next recipe.

For some people cooking seems very challenging, but if you follow these four simple steps, you will be cooking in not time.

I live in Austin, Texas and we are lucky to have one of the best executive chefs in the country, Tyson Cole. He has an executive chef job that people would die for. But he had to work hard for it. He started out as a dishwasher and ended up with two restaurants and an appearance on Iron Chef against Morimoto.

Tyson Cole is the executive chef or Uchi and his new restaurant Uchiko. I have not been to Uchiko yet, but I recently ate at Uchi and it was amazing. Uchi is considered one of the best sushi restaurants in America.

Tyson Cole shows that if you have a passion for what you do and you are driven to do whatever it takes to succeed you can really be what you want. Of course things could have turned out differently for him, but it shows that sticking to what you love can really pay off.

To be a great executive chef you need to work hard and study and learn your craft. For example, Mr. Cole worked in Austin, New York and Japan. He even learned Japanese better learn his art. Although Tyson didn’t go to culinary school, he apprenticed under the owner of a local sushi restaurant here, it might be a wise idea to start your journey at a culinary school.

Culinary training will give you a good base to work up the ranks to become an executive chef. If you wondering how long it will take to become an executive chef, it can take about five years to work your way up the ladder from dishwasher the way Tyson Cole did it. That is why getting some training can speed that process up some.

So if you are looking to become an executive chef be prepared to follow your passion and work hard. If you do this you never know where it will lead to. Tyson Cole didn’t know that one day he would own two great restaurants and appear on Iron Chef, but he just kept working at his dream and that is what you need to do.

New York City is the culinary capital of the United States. Some of the best cooking schools are located in NYC. Private and group classes are available. Also, famous chefs teach some of the classes De Gustibus Cooking School at Macy’s, like Mario Batalli. The classes run the gamut of styles and regions. Want to take a Japanese cooking class or learn to bake cakes, it’s all here for you. While you have an almost unlimited selection of courses you can take, trying to decide on one could be a challenge. The following is a selection of some of the cooking education available in the city.

The Institute of Culinary Education offers programs in culinary arts, pastry and baking arts, and culinary management. The culinary arts courses provide skill development in theory, technique, palate training, speed and teamwork. The pastry and baking arts program is overseen by Chef Nick Malgieri, world-renowned author, TV personality and former executive pastry chef at Windows on the World. The culinary management program is geared to those who want to start and run restaurants, catering operations, specialty food stores.

The French Culinary Institute of New York City, has programs in: classic culinary arts, classic pastry arts, the art of international bread baking. The classic culinary arts program covers classic French techniques that form the building blocks of all great western cuisine. Top pastry chefs from around the world teach the classic pastry arts program.

Home Cooking New York is not an academic culinary school, but are private cooking instructors, bringing chefs to your home to teach you to cook. The class is 2.5 hours and centers around creating a complete meal.

There are many private and class size cooking instruction in NYC, some can be found on CitySearch.com and also have customer ratings, which I find to be a great way to weed through things. If you’re looking for a true cooking program the Institute of Culinary Education or the French Culinary Institute are two great possibilities to choose from.