“I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.” MomCookingMy FavoriteMy MomRestaurantsItalianBellsFast FoodFood LoveTacosItalian FoodItalian CookingTaco BellBulgariansFast Food Restaurants Author:Leah LaBelle
“I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.” ThinkingWantHas BeensDoneKidsTelevisionMomMy FamilyFoundationCookingMy MomTechniqueTraditionalRestaurantsRegionsKeep GoingHeritageEducateDishesCookbookPalateLineageNaples Author:Rick Tramonto
“I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.” IfsMadeTogetherDifferencesWonderFourChildhoodFoodBrotherMomEatingCookingRestaurantsCulinaryRecognizingOlder BrotherEating AloneRestaurant BusinessEating Together Book:Bouchon Source: Bouchon
“In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.” MenBornFoodChangedGrewMomGrew UpCookingMy MomCooksKitchenRestaurantsGrandmotherMy GrandmotherSwedenEthiopia Author:Marcus Samuelsson
“My mom worked in restaurants for 60 years, and what I learned from her is a lot. But if I had to boil it down, take your work very seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Work harder than everyone else and never complain about it. Don't go to bed if you're not proud of the product of your day; stay awake until you are.” IfsYearsProductsHard WorkMomProudBedHarderMy MomComplainingAwakeRestaurantsWork Harder Author:Rachael Ray
“I was always a person on my mother's hip in the kitchen. My mom really wanted her kids at her side as much as possible, and she worked in restaurants for over fifty years. And my grandfather had ten children, and he grew and prepared most of the food. My grandmother, on my mother's side, was the family seamstress and the baker. So my mom, the eldest child, was always in the kitchen with my grandpa and I was always in the production and restaurant kitchens and our own kitchen with my mom. And it's just something that has always spoken to me.” YearsChildrenPersonsKidsWantedMotherSidesGrewMomTenPreparedProductionsMy MomHipsKitchenRestaurantsFiftyGrandmotherGrandfatherMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherGrandpaBakersEldestEldest Child Author:Rachael Ray
“The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. And all of a sudden, not just business thrives, but small business thrives.” IfsPersonsMotherHoursEconomyFlowerMomLessonsYogaRaisesStudiosPianoRestaurantsThriveGymGoing OutMinimumEarningSmall BusinessMothers DayMinimum WagePiano Lesson Author:Nick Hanauer
“I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.” RealChallengesMomCooksRestaurants Author:Mario Batali