My mother has always had me help her with the cooking. I really hated hearing her yell out my name from kitchen "Marlyn Elizabeth, ayudame! help me know!" . But what at the time seemed to be a burden or a chore is now a privilege and I sometimes have to beg her to teach me. Because of my mother I’m able to boil the best most delicious pot of beans, one of my most favorite things to eat! Because of my mother I have never and will never have to eat cup-noodles.