One problem with cooking lessons is that a lot of cooking requires practice for you to be any good. And it's practice in mundane drudgery like chopping things

One problem with cooking lessons is that a lot of cooking requires practice for you to be any good. And it's practice in mundane drudgery like chopping things to a uniform size, quickly. Meanwhile you are five times as slow as an experienced cook, and the food doesn't come out as good. That's really frustrating, and not something one or two lessons can fix. You just have to chop your hundred onions.