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When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both really busy. A lot of times I'd have to cook for the family; I'd rotate with my siblings. It started out as a chore, but as I got older, my mom started to see that I was really good at it. I became her sous chef.

My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog.

I love to cook. My mom taught me to cook at a very, very young age.

Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.