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My grandma was the biggest influence on me in the kitchen. My mother worked full time and I spent a lot of time with my grandma. I have such fond memories of us in the kitchen and her showing me how to make many dishes, vegetable soup, chicken and dumplings, coffee cake and many more!

My grandmother, who was an awesome cook influenced me the most in the kitchen. My mother was never a good cook and my grandmother wanted to make sure that I would be a better cook than my mom who never cared much for cooking. At an early age, she let me help her prepare meals. These early lessons are some that I still remember every time I cook. Thanks to my grandmother, I am a very good cook. Without her cooking lessons, I probably would not be married. My husband loves me but he will admit it was my cooking that helped me to win his heart. Some of my best memories in my life revolve around the kitchen and the dining table and I hope that they always will.Thank you-Rochelle H.divagirl@myself.com

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1. What woman has influenced you the most in the kitchen, and why.my aunt gayla has definitely influenced me the most in the kitchen. i grew up in the south (north carolina), but i also grew up with a mom who didn’t really cook very often. she’d make something when she was in town, but she traveled so often for work that i was often left to fend for myself in the kitchen. but when we went to aunt gayla’s house in the country, i knew it was on. i knew there would be pot roast, chicken and dumplings, fatback, shrimp casserole, biscuits, butter rolls, strawberry shortcake to die for, pecan pie, gigantic hams, pasta salad, red velvet cake, 400 kinds of casserole, and the occasional pig in a blanket.she’d always call my grandmother’s house when we’d roll into town, “jeannnneeete. i need your help with these biscuits. get your hiney over here now.”now that i live in nyc, i frequently write and ask her to send me copies of her recipes. you can’t get food like that here, my aunt’s never really left the carolina’s. like, ever. so that’s the food she knows up and down and inside out. no one makes a cake like she does, i definitely don’t have her skills, hell, she burns out an oven at least once a year. but i strive to cook like she does and provide for my little brooklyn community like she does.she cooks for the entire county (no lie), and they’re all invited to her house all the time. she’s incredible not just in the kitchen, but in her community. and ain’t that a woman? 2. What is your favorite memory in the kitchen with an important woman in your life.my favorite memories in the kitchen are a tie – while i loved learning to cook for realsies from my aunt, i remember my mom opening the spice cabinet up to me at a very, very young age. not that i knew what to do with spices, but i loved to make “soup” for my mother, which she would dutifully pretend to taste. she let me use the expensive good stuff, too, which at the time meant nothing to me. i just knew it was powdery and blended into the base of my “soups” (water) very well. i’d use enough pepper to kill a hippo, but my mother always encouraged me to have at it. mix it all up. and have a ball. i take that kind of approach to life, and whether or not it was from those “soup” sessions, i fondly remember spending that time with her. 3. If you are not a woman, who do you plan to share the prize with, and why.i’m a woman, and i’ll share it with the women in my family and my community!

My mom has influenced me the most. She is a wonderful cook.

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My favorite memory in the kitchen when my Mamaw me how to make biscuits. Since becoming a SAHM 2 years ago, I’ve started cooking from scratch and just trying to learn all I can.