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I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I…

— Emeril Lagasse

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

— Dom DeLuise

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

— Wolfgang Puck

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

— Jamie Oliver

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

— Caleb Followill

When I was younger, my dad would cook, and I would never really have it, unless it was something like spaghetti. I would only…

— Peyton List

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me…

— Paula Deen

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

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught…

— Aaron Sanchez

I remember being a young boy in Spain and watching my parents cook. We didn't go to a lot of restaurants because we didn't…

— Anonymous

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my…

— Jacques Torres