We are the animals who eat cooked food.

In the world of food we call it cooking.

And we kind of borrowed the curriculum from the Culinary Institute of America, which in their mind is kind of the Harvard of cooking schools, and we created a gourmet cooks program for welfare mothers in this million dollar kitchen in the middle of the inner city.

I write about food. I write about cooking.

It's free cooking lessons, guys, free cooking lessons in the Main Street.

Can you cook?

It is about food, but it's not about cooking, per se.

We're cooking from scratch every day.

It's edible, so you can do smart packaging around food that you can cook with the food.

For the longest time in the food industry, there was a sense that there was one way, a perfect way, to make a dish.

Nathan Myhrvold Cooking as never seen before

Yes. She liked to cook.

Those are the recipes that the kids learn in my cooking classes.

We have cooking classes we have cooking classrooms in our schools.

Now, I'm also very interested in cooking.

And finally, there's the old way of viewing food is the old way.

The pies and cakes a woman bakes

I went to chef school in France.

Everyone who works in the culinary world knows that the first stage of cooking is mise en place, which is just a French way of saying, get organized.

I mean she loves the cooking school, sir.

It's why I learned all my secrets as a chef

You'd have to do all the cooking.

Now, apart from the cooking...

In fact, understanding why cooking works requires knowing the science of cooking some of the chemistry, some of the physics and so forth.

I would say, we should call ourselves coctivors from coquere, to cook.

Besides, it never hurt a young girl to learn how to cook, did it?

I had lots of time then.

His way of connecting with the family was always making us a dish, making us dinner, Louis Galicia said.

And it's the best cooking school in the world.

I suppose so. I'm a graduate cook. I have a diploma.

Cookbook author Nathan Myhrvold talks about his magisterial work, Modernist Cuisine and shares the secret of its cool photographic illustrations, which show cross sections of food in the very act of being cooked.

Many of the Depression era food ways were abandoned as soon as the country got back on its feet.

All you do is nuke it. What could be better?

I taught myself to cook with a bunch of big books like this.

So that's the place where you really want to cook.

And I came up with an idea that I will write a cookbook.

A cooking course should be mandatory in schools.

India is a region rich in culinary culture.

Did you learn how in school?

Your mind has not been on the cooking. It has been elsewhere.

I know how to cook, very well. Grandma taught me

So cooking is a very important technology.

Now, cooking allowed also that we became a migrant species.

We have about three fathers who have been trained to cook.

He's developed a very avant garde cuisine.