Cooking is easy. I recommend you learn how to cook well. I go further and recommend you learn to cook fantastically. Cuisine is the only art that nourishes.
We live in a day and age where the Food Network is almost as free as the air we breathe. Whole cookbooks are just a google away....free. You can get the jist of just about any great style of cuisine for nothing. The local grocery store has a level of quality and especially variety that were unheard of just 50 years ago. This is 2012, and the world is your oyster, and everything else you can eat. Go out and conquer.
You are not educated, or ready for life, if you are not able to prepare a sumptuous feast, or at the very least, possess the sophistication of knowing what constitutes said feast.
Plus, especially in your age group, you will derive serious social benefits from impressing your friends with your culinary prowess.
Furthermore, as a bachelor just gone out in the world, you will find that good cooking goes down awesome with the female half of the species. I said cooking is the only art that nourishes the body....it is situated just next to sex in the list of useful skills you can master. Learn to cook. You will get serious mileage out of this. I know chefs, and they get crazy laid. That's an incentive.
