Background Quote by Ayesha Curry

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who I am.…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

My dad is Polish. My mom is Moroccan, and I grew up around all kinds of different languages, and I love playing with it,…

— Inbar Lavi

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

— Poppy Z. Brite

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

— Jaboukie Young-White

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

— Tinashe

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

— Larry Fitzgerald

Well, I grew up in Switzerland where my parents were immigrant workers, but my whole family are very good cooks - my father also.…

— Roberto Di Matteo

My dad is Chinese/Malaysian and my mum is Austrian, so food was always a big deal in our house.

— Rachel Khoo

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

— Jourdan Dunn

My siblings and I grew up on Indian food. My mother, though of Slovenian descent, learned to cook Indian delicacies for my father after…

— Sunita Williams

My dad was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot. That led to me seeing myriad cultures and cuisines. I have been…

— Graham Elliot

When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and…

— Lidia Bastianich