"Anyone can Cook"

If anyone has seen Ratatouille then you're familiar with what Gasteau said "What do I always say? Anyone can cook". It has always amazed me when I hear on TV or when listening in on a conversation when someone (especially females) say, I can't cook. I can't even boil water. How is that possible? If you can read, anyone can cook! I learned to cook when I was about 13 yrs old. By watching my mom in the kitchen. In the hispanic culture, the girls were expected to "help" out in the kitchen with fixing the family meals. Then when I got married, I received my first cookbook (pix). I still have that very same cookbook, dirty, binding coming apart but still use to this day. In fact, I made an apple crisp for dessert tonite from it. That Betty Crocker sure knows how to cook. I gave my daughter a copy of it when she got married and I'm sure she must use it once in a while. Now our daughter did NOT help out much in the kitchen mainly because she had extra curricular activities after school like band practice but now she's a very good cook. She learns from the best.... no, not me but from the likes like Alton Brown, Paula Deen, Giada DeLaurentis to name a few. So girls! Stop making excuses and get in there, and whip me up something to eat... I'm hungry!!