I have started cooking more in the last two years. Cooking is actually not that difficult once you grasp some of the fundamentals. I now usually just check the ingredients and go my merry way, very seldomly do I follow the method to a T. If you fuck up a little while cooking chances are good you can pull it back.
Baking on the other hand, fuck baking! Baking is way different than cooking, add 5 tsp instead of 6? You have fucked it up, start again.
Z for Zachariah. I read it when I was like 15 for school. Man I remeber feeling the book is like a farming manual when they tried to survive after the nuclear war. The older man trying to rape the other 16 year old girl survivor also made me super uncomfortable. Maybe it would be better if I read it now. I just remeber it being a drag.