Who was your biggest culinary influence?

[ShiftyBagLady]

i think this is really interesting, thanks everyone
families are so important in this arent they, im sure thats to do with a nurturing/nourishing factor its certainly what made me more intersted in food, it just grew from wanting to feed my own family as best i could.

 

[beeboo]

Surburban75

 

[Fuchs66]

My mum definately, started at an early age and have kept going.

 

[mrsfran]

It's my aim in life to be a culinary inspiration unto others!


Got a long way to go yet...

 

[madzone]

Definitely my mum. Plus watching Graham Kerr, the Galloping Goumet

Oh
my
god

 

[intrikat]

My mum was a young executive's wife in the 70's where dinner parties were de rigueur
as such until we were old enough to be useful and clean the dishes, she wouldn't let us near anything - that and the fact that my sis was proper clumsy as a child. Mum was and still is a top cook and has weird and wonderful recipes that I love to look at when I get the chance (not often enough as she's in QLD, aust) and every now and then I still ring her up just to get her pumpkin scone recipe cos I can never remember the measures and its my fave comfort food.
So yes even after reading that back, I guess it is my mum that originally inspired me, and I quite like following recipes these days where I used to be just-chuck-everything-in-a-pot-and-hope-for-the-best type cook.
suppose it comes with age, or having children (not that I have any of those) so it must be the age... i quite enjoy gardening these days too

 

[Numbers]

My wife, she's an absolute genius in the kitchen, she's inherited the gift her mum and nan had. My best meals have been cooked by her, definitely, and I can cook a decent spread cos of her.

Growing up it was red sauce brown sauce salt and pepper, I hated the very bland food my mum served up.

I love it now tho', when I go back to visit it reminds me of the simplicity of it, and I love it.

But my wife nis numero uno when it comes to my now held influences. Although I did introduce her to Tarragon beans

 

[cesare]

Oh
my
god