TheMetalChef
Senior Cook
- Joined
- Jul 21, 2009
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- 252
My mom, a great cook, always learning and passing it on. Always interested. Julia Child, Madeline Kamman, Jeff Smith, our first TV chefs on PBS. My chef/instructors at CIA, etc...but it all comes back to mom for having us cook with her, learning her recipes, her love of seeking new ideas/methods etc. Definitely mom was my greatest influence.
Jeff Smith was absolutely my #1 influence early on. I had half a dozen of his cookbooks growing up.
He was so much about authentic with everything he did. That kind of faithfulness and respect for the regional tradition just doesn't happen much anymore.