I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11.

I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

I liked to screw around in the kitchen when I was a kid. But I started cooking when I was 15.

At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.