Penelope Cruz a kitchen flop

Despite taking cooking lessons, Hollywood star Penelope Cruz has confessed that she is not very accomplished in the kitchen department.

Contactmusic quoted the Nine actress as saying, "I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes but it looks, in movies, that I cook much better than I cook. The things I can make, can taste pretty bad.

"I am not the most organised person in the kitchen, but I took a lot of lessons.

"But my lessons were more like to be the assistant of a chef so I could learn to cut the vegetables very fast.

"I can do all of those things really well, but then I'm not that good at cooking."