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

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

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

My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.

Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

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 could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.