When did you realize you were a foodie?

[PanchoHambre]

I always loved food and being in the kitchen.

As a young kid my mom did NOT cook (she's great now though thank you food network and hungry step dad)... I have possibly the only Italian Grandmother who HATES cooking.... she still hates it at 85!

Fortunatley I was watched during the day by my great aunt who was a great cook. She cooked pretty much Italian-American immigrant fare but everything, even a simple bowl of pasta, was a labor of love and executed perfectly (her father, my great grandfather, was a tailor so this mentality of percision and craft was pervasive... this I did not inherit)

My love of food and cooking I belive comes from this aunt who was the most important person in my early childhood.

I had the opportunity to travel alot in my teens/20s and experienced a great variety of foods this way and I was always eager to try

I started cooking in college when I got my first apartment and it has been an important part of my life ever since.

During the periods in college that I was in the dorms we ate out alot too and I got to experience all sorts of great ethnic foods in the quest for cheap grub.

[RPMcMurphy]

When I spent as much dining out as one would on a sports car in the month of Nov. 2007 alone... (which was more than my mortgage payment)

[luvs]

when i was seven. i voraciously read cookbooks like novels, i wanted to be in that kitchen, COOKING! and i cooked what a kiddo can cook. now, at 27, my love of food is mature & yet growing.

[Green Lady]

I never cared for eating that much until I was in high school and I took a foods class. I learned to appreciate what went into preparing a dish/meal and enjoyed the finished product so much, too much sometimes! From then on I was a foodie!