Online classes are the best way to learn! Each week, you’ll receive an email with a link to new streaming video cooking classes, mp3 audio interviews, and downloadable/printable PDF recipes and charts. You can watch the classes at your leisure, download the audio interviews to your iPod or mp3 player, and save the other files to print whenever you get around to it. You have lifetime access to all the materials — if life gets too busy, you can come back when things slow down.

No need to hire a babysitter and schlep to a community college — take the class while the kids are napping. Or download the videos and audios to your iPod and watch on the train on the way to work. Then practice in your own kitchen — and you’ll learn everything I spent years struggling to master the hard way.