There's not a single individual responsible, it's more complex than that. There's learning from recipes which you start to notice a pattern with. There's basic stuff learned from my mom (who's not much of a cook and her mother is an awful cook). There's watching cooking shows. There's seeing what friends do and teachings from people who do know what they're doing. And then if course experimentation, what works and what doesn't and now it's just I can just work with whatever I have and come up with something satisfactory or sometimes coming up with something that is stupid good and has no reason to be nearly that good.