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I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.

My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't always have the money, so cooking at home was just what we did.

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

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

I've never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.