self-trained

No one did more in his early career to demonstrate how easily a self-trained boy with cheap equipment could go to the big show than Spielberg – and become maybe the most famous movie director in the world.

David Thomson on JJ Abrams 2011

Mr. Strusinski, 38 years old, is self-trained, acting on instinct and experience.

In Search of Nature's Treats Sumathi Reddy 2010

This year, self-trained chef Suji Park - who had created a mini-empire of restaurants that taught South Koreans to love Western-style brunch - has her sights on starting a new trend, introducing South Koreans to piled-high pastrami sandwiches.

Taco Bell hopes to spice up South Korea Chico Harlan 2010

Gehr, a self-trained filmmaker who had already helmed a number of experimental shorts, was teaching a summer course at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1970 when he conceived the idea for “Serene Velocity.”

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010

Like many self-trained blues artists, he was a one-man band.

Capturing the Blues Marc Myers 2011

In 1923, a self-trained Adventist geologist named George McCready Price took White's vision and turned it into a 700-page magnum opus called "The New Geology," where he set the standard for all the muddle-headed creationist pseudo-science that was to follow.

Matt J. Rossano: Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time Religion Matt J. Rossano 2011

This year, self-trained chef Suji Park - who had created a mini-empire of restaurants that taught South Koreans to love Western-style brunch - has her sights on starting a new trend, introducing South Koreans to piled-high pastrami sandwiches.

Taco Bell hopes to spice up South Korea Chico Harlan 2010

In 1923, a self-trained Adventist geologist named George McCready Price took White's vision and turned it into a 700-page magnum opus called "The New Geology," where he set the standard for all the muddle-headed creationist pseudo-science that was to follow.

Matt J. Rossano: Creationism: That (Not So) Old Time Religion Matt J. Rossano 2011

As a self-trained chef -- Mr. Seah was never a professional cook and previously worked for a company manufacturing optical frames -- he uses his own recipe for passion fruit curd, thickened with eggs and cream.

Dish: Mont Blanc Meet Mount Kinabaru Amy Ma 2011

She was known as "The Angel of Tucson," and often accompanied one of the town's doctors on emergency calls as a self-trained holistic practitioner and herbologist.

Personal Information for Terese Marx-Ferrin 2010