The Story Of How I Became A YouTuber
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How did childhood family members spark my love of food?
Recognize this guy? That's me. This is also me. Turns out, I've loved food and cooking ever since I was a kid. And it got me wondering, how did I get from here to here? This is the most personal video I've ever made. The photos in here, my mom almost wouldn't let me borrow them just to make this video. So because of that, I'm doing this whole video by myself. And we're gonna start way back from the beginning. My love for food all started with my grandmother. She's the one right in the middle there with the green shirt on and the apron. Every single photo I seem to find of her she has an apron on, and we actually still have her recipe box. And someday, I'd love to go through the entire thing, cook every single recipe in there, and taste it all again.
I really wish I remembered eating some of her food. But another person I remember learning a lot from was my great-grandmother. Here is a photo of me giving her this cookie that I made for her for her 90th birthday. And fun fact about her is that she actually lived until 101. The third person that I think about when I think about where did I get my love for food is my grandfather right here. He was Persian and I looked everywhere with my family. We couldn't find any photos of him actually cooking because he didn't really cook that often. But what he did know how to do was make rice. Every time he'd make rice, we'd all go into the kitchen and we'd huddle around him. It was like he was this magnet that brought everybody right into the kitchen around this one pot.
And all he was making was rice, but he was good at it. This is my mom. And as you can see, she is very pretty. She's the best mom ever, but when it comes to cooking, my mom still to this day jokes that we would know dinner was ready when the fire alarm went off. And this right here is my dad.
He actually didn't really cook that often, but as you can see, he got me Dunkin'. I don't think I've ever seen a happier kid than this right here.
The one thing is, even with all these photos, and between talking to my family and doing research on my own, we can't exactly seem to figure out the very first day that I actually cooked something. But what's obvious in looking at all these is that most of my childhood photos, like right here, this is me eating a block of cheese. They're pretty much all me either with food, eating, or trying to cook, or me in the kitchen. This is me in the kitchen exploring the pantry with two of my brothers. None of the food that I would cook or the experimentation that I did during this time looked very good. Like, I have absolutely no idea what this is supposed to be. I think I made a lobster using bread, a sandwich, and carrots.
Here's me bringing this birthday cake to my brother, okay? And I'm very young, clearly, to be making a birthday cake for anybody.
and as you can see when i bring it over to him right we're all excited we're all happy but we don't have to pretend that this looks good right and here's another time when me and my brother pete apparently decided to make some cupcakes i don't know what you guys think but to me it looks like a dog just went to the bathroom on all of these cupcakes like just went right down the line look at this this is the aftermath of the cupcakes I don't know if we did something, but my brother Pete there looks extremely guilty.
We at least had what looks to be a pretty successful lemonade stand here, but this one right here, This one is my favorite photo that I think I found. You could try to look at it for a moment and figure out exactly why it's my favorite, but the simple reason is because we were having artichokes for dinner, and look how excited my face is. What kind of normal kid gets that excited by an artichoke? I guess the reason I showed you all these photos here is to say that clearly from a young age, right, I had this passion, this crazy passion for food.
What early cooking memories and funny kitchen experiments shaped me?
We've gotten through the photo album, okay? but it gets better. So during the holidays, my family, like many families do, would often get together to celebrate.
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