Is Cooking becoming a Lost Art?

I am by no means a culinary student in the traditional sense. I've not gone to school and paid tuition for it. But, never the less, I enjoy cooking for my friends and family. This weekend I spent a good amount of time learning how to cook an Omelette. Now you would think that this would be easy to do. But I have never been able to cook an omelette without it becoming scrambled eggs. I learned that the trick to doing this successfully was to preheat the pan and spread the oil around as you were starting to. I also learned to do it with chopsticks... maybe that was the way to do it? 


In exchange for being taught how to make an omelette I taught my friend how to make rice without burning it. Seems like a fair trade no? Now he can make his burrito dishes without burned rice and I can now attempt to make cute looking bento boxes with omelettes that i love so much. I love the idea of bento boxed lunches. A well balanced meal made fresh that morning, with love and care. Granted mine are kind of international. I normally make a broccoli and cheese rice to put in the bottom dish. And in the top compartment i generally divide into two sections. One with hard boiled eggs but now that'll be replaced with omelette wedges, and octopus dogs (Hot dogs cut into an octopus dogs that are given seaseme seed eyes). The divider bright colorful paper.


I take alot of pride in my cooking and am shocked when i find out my friends don't know how to cook or their idea of cooking is microwaveable meals. I get so much joy out of cooking so for now i cook for my friends but really... what happened to cooking being a vital part of learning? I was never offered a home ec course in high school but maybe that's needed?


Well for now, I'm content to feel like one of my favorite japanese anime characters from one of my favorite shows. Now Sailor Moon and Speed from Speed racer will always be my top two favorites but Makato/Sailor Jupiter is right up there! 


And with that, I close with this picture. Mata ne!