5 Ingredient Fix: Claire Robinson
Posted on Apr 13, 2010 @ 06:28PM - Add a comment
If there is one word to describe Claire Robinson—it's passionate! Especially when it comes to food! As the host of not one but two popular shows on The Food Network—5 Ingredient Fix (Saturdays at 12:30pm ET) and Food Network Challenge (Sundays at 8pm ET)—she's been encouraging aspiring chefs everywhere to keep things simple and not be afraid to experiment in the kitchen. We caught up with Claire for our own fix of her foodie inspired tips, tricks and inspiration!
RadarOnline.com: Where did your love of food begin?
Claire Robinson: It’s funny. Food has been such a big influence in my life since I was a little kid. I was one of those really nerdy, geeky kids. I'd come home and instead of watching Scooby-Doo, I would watch James Beard, and all those old school cooking shows like Great Chefs, Great Cities. This was before Food Network even existed. I remember when Food Network started and I thought it was just the coolest thing in the entire world. My mom said that when I was a kid, I would just live in the kitchen. I would stay there. My first word was “hot” because she was always trying to get me away from the oven.
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RadarOnline.com: When did you start experimenting and cooking in the kitchen?
CR: My mother is kind of a hippie. She’s a surreal oil painter. So, she was very supportive of a little kid thinking, “Hey, I want to make Martha Stewart berry muffins from scratch and make a huge mess in the kitchen!" She would go and get all the ingredients for me and I would go crazy cooking. It was really great to have that freedom and for her to let me play. But, I didn’t cook as a career at first. I actually did other careers and finally I was like, “I want to do what I love most,” and quit my whole life and chased my dream.
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