My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook: The Aura Years 1978–1982 is a compilation album by composer, singer, songwriter, and producer Annette Peacock.

[1][2] In a review for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger wrote: "These recordings' mix of jazz fusion, album-oriented rock, and Peacock's unusual blend of jazzy singing with sensually spoken intellectual poetic passages was too offbeat to get any more than a cult audience, though it's more accessible than many a cult rock artist's work.

"[3] The BBC's Peter Marsh commented: "Hardly a month goes by these days without the rediscovery of some neglected talent...

In Annette Peacock's case, the words 'neglected' and 'talent' don't really begin to do her justice, but her rediscovery's been a long time coming...

"[6] Writing for The Herald, Keith Bruce noted that the album is "both outspokenly political and louchely sensual, experimental and downright groovy, and contains one of the great alternative slogans to the Atkins diet in its opening line: 'My mama never taught me how to cook - that's why I'm so skinny'.