As the daughter of esteemed cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli and my dad, Joh, an Italian and Chinese cooking enthusiast, I spent my childhood surrounded by food. I honestly feel as if I learned to eat according to whatever cookbook my mother was working on at the time. One year was devoted to Indian as she cooked her way through the manuscript of Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni; another year was devoted to Italian with the Splendid Table Lynne Rossetto Kasper.