Anyone can learn to be a great cook. Just ask Mike the Food Guy. When Mike left home for college he had never cooked a thing...never even boiled water! He nearly starved to death the first month. Then, gathering up his courage (and a fire extinguisher!) he braved the kitchen and successfully (more-or-less) cooked his first dish...cheeseburger Hamburger Helper. Since he didn't poison himself or burn the kitchen down, he was highly encouraged to keep cooking. This was the start of a life-long passionate affair with food. Many cooking classes and thousands of clipped recipes from magazines later, there's really nothing Mike the Food Guy isn't willing to try to cook. He's progressed (fortunately!) from Hamburger Helper to Beef Bourguignonne and beyond. Mike especially likes baking, preparing appetizers and tapas, and trying ethnic dishes.

Mike has also honed his skills in party/event planning and entertaining and is developing his knowledge of wine. Although cooking is not his profession, Mike has done private work in the kitchen for friends and colleagues, consulting and planning and preparing food for parties, showers, and events. If he's not in the kitchen (or on the radio), then he's likely in a bookstore, adding to his massive collection of cookbooks and cooking magazines. Mike the Food Guy encourages people to get into the kitchen and have fun...no matter how the dish turns out in the end...learn from both triumphs and mistakes. He encourages people to follow the advice of the Dali Lama: "Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon!"