The first thing I ever actually tried to cook was macaroni and cheese. I was 12 years old and cooking out of an old illustrated paperback my dad had bought for himself called Dad’s Own Cookbook, which was written in 1993 by Bob Sloan. You see, my father is a bit of a food purist. Growing up in New Mexico in a large hispanic family, there were just certain ways food was made. Tortillas were formed by hand, chili never ...More