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ALICE DREGER I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
LAURA ESQUIVEL I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.
COOLIO
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to coo... KAMALA HARRIS I pretty much taught myself how to cook. My mother was a great cook, but she was a '50s cook.
KAREN TEDESCO As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
YVES ROSSY I was a sickly child and couldn't digest food. Preparing food for me was a challenge for my mother, ...
KARLA LOPEZ
I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes to... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook. ROBERT MONDAVI
I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and j... MARTIN YAN
I'm a terrific Mexican cook, and I just love Mexican food. And I love cooking Mexican food. EVA LONGORIA My mom was cooking all the time. I was always around great food, and so was Sandy. Our mothers could...
RICH ALLISON Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you ca...
DANIEL BOULUD I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in elec...
KOICHI TANAKA I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my f...
DASCHA POLANCO So I'm pushing myself, but I am still at heart a home cook, and I use that to my advantage when talk...
DAVE LIEBERMAN I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on th...
JEAN-GEORGES VONGERICHTEN
I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook. JANEANE GAROFALO
I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian... JEN LANCASTER I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I m...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, th...
FRANCES MAYES
I can cook because my life depended on it when I lived in Thailand. Either I learnt cooking, or I le... AKSHAY KUMAR My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In...
CHANTAL AKERMAN I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very yo...
LANA PARRILLA When I was a child, I didn’t have any watch but all my friends had, but now today I have a watch b...
VIKRANT PARSAI
I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that... AJA NAOMI KING
My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said... JESSE MCCARTNEY As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking co...
ANTONIA FRASER I love nudity. I'm always nude. When I was a little girl my mother would always have to dress me bec...
GABRIELLE RICHENS I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we h...
SAMANTHA BEE
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if yo... NORA EPHRON
My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child. TAMARA MELLON I've been doing it since I was 14 years old. I was a freshman in high school. I would practice on my...
BRIAN SLOCUM
My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her ... LEO BUSCAGLIA
I first got into food with my mother, just Southern cooking, really bad for you food (just delicious... TED ALLEN My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I hav...
CHERYL LADD
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... JOHNNY CASH I always thought I'd be the quintessential Earth Mother, but when I had Harrison, I really wasn&...
JANE GREEN I understand there may be complications in the life of a child if they no longer have a parent. But ...
GAYLE STOKES
I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I lo... RICK SANTORUM
My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know... DANIEL CRAIG
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what ... PHILIPPE PETIT When I'm home, I cook. I love cooking for people.
EMILY SALIERS We make authentic Maharashtrian food at home. My mother supervises the preparation and the menu ever...
RITEISH DESHMUKH I would have - I didn't really have to be an athlete. I could have been, you know - worked in fa...
MICHAEL OHER
I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even... TY PENNINGTON
I have learned to delegate. GWEN STEFANI My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking......
MICHELLE PHAN
When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial ... HILARY MANTEL I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I lo...
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every da...
RICHARD FLANAGAN I cook what I like. Things just pop into my head. When you've been cooking so long, you know what wo...
KYLE DAVIS When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birt...
NANCY FRIDAY When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth t...
NANCY FRIDAY
I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and ... BELL HOOKS I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST My dad was an artist in his own right and had a studio in our basement when I was a kid. My twin sis...
JACQUELYN SINGER
It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I h... JOHN MACKEY When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn't ...
NUNO ROQUE
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he... ELVIS PRESLEY I have learned that I am a one-woman man.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I found that I always loved cooking, and that's an important part of nutrition ? being able to cook ...
LEA ANNE DEA I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me f...
CARROT TOP
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in cl... NATALIE BABBITT
Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. JULIA CHILD My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe...
NATE PARKER
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. M... PHILIPPA GREGORY
Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was you... DEBI MAZAR
I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make w... OLIVIA THIRLBY
I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when ... EMERIL LAGASSE I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES
When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress... LEA MICHELE
I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just rea... TED ALLEN
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had a... JULIA CHILD I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
AL ROKER I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and... EMERIL LAGASSE
At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my ... SURESH RAINA I enjoy cooking, and people love what I cook.
LORETTA WILLIAMS I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduc...
RASHID JOHNSON When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
CLYDE TOMBAUGH
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... MICHIO KAKU I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the ...
GURINDER CHADHA
I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired sta... CLIVE BARKER My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic. IMAN My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT I got interested in the 8th Texas when I learned there was a captain with my name in the unit. We've...
TOM HEWITT
People often brag about being “hot-tempered” or “fiery” when a more accurate description wou... ROSIE BLYTHE
I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. CAROL ANN DUFFY My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so ...
RICHARD J. ROBERTS I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For ... JACQUES PEPIN
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at al... GAIL CARSON LEVINE
I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had... MALCOLM X
My mother was an awful cook, an exceptionally awful kosher cook, but I stayed kosher until I got to ... SIMON SCHAMA
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ... FRED ROGERS During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
NAMIE AMURO I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't unti...
JAY MCINERNEY
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. 
It takes two hands to clap. 
Leaders of both countries have built mutual trust and a cooperative partnership, exchanged high-leve... 
Only by sticking to and perfecting China's socialist political system can we achieve the country's u... 
I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit. 