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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

I always knew I wanted to be a chef.

Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.

Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.