Along Quote by Christine Teigen

I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

— Michael Mina

I didn't cook that much as a kid. My mother was cooking, and I was her helper. We made dishes together.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

My first vivid memory is watching Mom in a restaurant kitchen. She was flipping something with a spatula. I tried to copy her and…

— Rachael Ray

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the…

— Jennifer Lawrence

My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.

— Thomas Keller

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

— Dom DeLuise

I stopped using plastic cooking spoons years ago and love my bamboo spoons and spatulas by Bambuhome.

— Anna Getty

When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it…

— Erin O'Connor

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship.…

— Jacques Pepin

As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't…

— Kelis

My dad used to give me a tenner to come and work at his greasy spoon cafe when I was 11.

— Jamie Demetriou

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a…

— Tom Colicchio