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My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

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

I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people.

My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.