Bar Quote by Tom Colicchio

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

— Nobu Matsuhisa

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 started preparing meals for my family when I was 12 because both of my parents worked, but I didn't know that it was…

— Ayesha Curry

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

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

— Alex Guarnaschelli

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

— Michael Mina

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

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 started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

— Coolio

My sisters started to cook at nine and, being one of the youngest, I wanted in on it, too, so I began at six…

— Gregory Porter

When I was, like, 10, I cooked a three-course meal for my family.

— Sonoya Mizuno