I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.
Camila Alves
Related Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and... PAULA DEEN My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was ... CHARLIZE THERON This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family. CAMILA ALVES From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, l... LARA PULVER Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. CHRISTINA MILIAN We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chick... HAYLIE DUFF I would like to develop my writing skills and work on pulling my family together (to) create an albu... BRIGETTE BRANNAN I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both ... H. ROBERT HORVITZ I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. MELISSA ETHERIDGE I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon... JOURDAN DUNN I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big... B. B. KING My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and... EMERIL LAGASSE I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year ... ELLIOTT ERWITT My wife was born and raised in Italy until she was about 9, and then she came to America, and her mo... BILL RANCIC The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m... BIG SEAN Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new pe... LINDSAY PRICE The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for my... LARRY DRAKE It's time for me to make my own decisions. Everybody else has made decisions for me. My dad and ever... DAVID IRONS I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the wome... GLADYS KNIGHT I remember seeing 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' with Colleen Dewhurst, and that made a really... BROOKE SMITH I had exhausted the leads that came my way as much as I could. I would make flyers on a weekly basis... FERNANDO REALYVASQUEZ I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it... HANNAH MILLS Some of the recipes came from my family, or I just figured it out from how my family made things. Bu... MARTHA GREENLAW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. AL ROKER I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big fam... BROOKE BURKE I rarely saw my Grandma Markle, as she hailed from New Hampshire and spent much of her life in Penns... MEGHAN MARKLE My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old. DANNY PUDI Some of the recipes came from my family, or I just figured it out from how my family made things. Bu... MARTHA GREENLAW I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with... TAMRON HALL My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang... JONATHAN KRISEL I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all tho... JOSEPH ABBOUD This is an ideal business for me and my brother. We get along great. We'd like to expand the busines... DANNY STRICKLAND Tennessee has put a lot of pressure on me), and my family has also. I'm going to have to take some t... BRANDON WARREN My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h... NANDAN NILEKANI I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and ... AULI'I CRAVALHO I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes to... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of... ERIK HASSLE My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th... J. J. WATT My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was pla... DAVID WALTON I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it w... ALY RAISMAN Once my mom became a teacher, I saw the importance of education. I've seen the effect a teacher like... JEAN WEBB It disturbed me quite a bit when young children had to get on the evacuation buses and leave their p... STEVE WOZNIAK My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch ... CHERIE LUNGHI I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I m... ALESSANDRA TORRESANI I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and ... JOSE CARRERAS When the Jones family moved into their new house, a visiting relative asked five-year-old Sammy how ... UNKNOWN I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It help... SAKU KOIVU For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this g... RONNENE HARRIS My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree o... BRIAN ACTON It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasser... CASEY WASSERMAN I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watc... LAURA HARRIER For almost five years on 'Happy Days,' I have had a mom and pop and a brother who give me ad... ERIN MORAN To my mind, a family house felt lived-in, not brand-new, with a patina of age and history that a mod... GALE ANNE HURD The people here are like a family to me. I view my role with passion and excitement every day. JOYCE BRANCATO I thought someone would be bending over me watching me cook and telling me I'm doing it wrong! All t... HOLLY YOUNG My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f... VALORIE CURRY I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens... CURTIS STONE Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ... HAILEE STEINFELD Knowing what goes on in a Latin family at mealtimes, ... I wanted to reflect the madness and the war... GRACIELA DANIELE I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above worki... GERARD BUTLER The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away t... PAULA GARCES I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare m... GLEN TAYLOR Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook feat... KRISTINA MCMORRIS It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers... AL KALINE People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is m... BECKY G I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a... SEAN BERDY My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin ... JAMES WOLK My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pul... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own s... BILL DE BLASIO I had a chance to look up and I found my wife and kids. It almost made me cry having my family watch... JASON CIRONE I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinar... KANDYSE MCCLURE At that time in my life (1980-81) I was going through some turmoil in my family life. He grabbed a h... JEFF OMSPAUGH I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... TED DEKKER As a Scout, I learned how to set goals and achieve them. Being a Scout also taught me leadership at ... STEVE FOSSETT I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own co... LAURA INNES I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. An... EDEN HAZARD There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama sc... CARMEN EJOGO A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the youn... ELIZABETH GILBERT I loved my job at the paper. I loved meeting new people every day and never knowing where I would en... MOLLY HARPER My daughter was here this weekend to help. She would give him a drink of water or do the dishes. For... JOANNE DAANE My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE Naomi made a difficult decision due to a series of personal problems to leave her home and her famil... DAVE HERNANDEZ Cece was all I had. Without her, I’d be totally alone in the world. Oh, God. I probed her ge... JULIE ANNE PETERS I remember being young in the backseat when my grandma would take me to school, and I would be liter... NORMANI KORDEI My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ... DAVE MUSTAINE My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was... BILLIE LOURD Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memori... NATHAN KRESS Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are th... MAGGIE SMITH I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and fa... NICK FROST My family and friends treat me as they always have. DANIEL CRAIG My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping ... ZOEY DEUTCH My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b... AMY TAN I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for m... RICHARD BRIERS I want a better future, for my family, my dad. And for me. JOSE PEREZ Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I ... BOBBY DARIN I swore I would never do a reality show. I've been offered them for years and years because our ... DREA DE MATTEO My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe... BARRY HANNAH MOM Wholeheartedly, She loved me- And inspired me- With transcending devot... GIORGE LEEDY
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