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Asking people about their first food memories can be illuminating.

— Melissa Leong

We had our wheat. We made our own olive oil. We made our wine. We had chickens, ducks; we had sheep, cows, milk. So…

— Lidia Bastianich

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

— Dom DeLuise

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because…

— Debi Mazar

I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.

— Ayesha Curry

Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things.…

— Rachael Ray

Food was always such an important part of my family life when I was growing up.

— Roberto Di Matteo

I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always…

— Ainsley Harriott

Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

I got a fascination with food.

— Heather Mills

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

— Gisele Bundchen

So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered…

— Kate Christensen