We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.
My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.
I grew up drinking eggnog and watching 'It's A Wonderful Life' every Christmas with my family.
My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
I welcome criticism. I come from a - I wouldn't say mean, but you've got to have tough skin to be in my family.
I married a Jewish lady, and we're raising our son Jewish, and since I'm not Jewish the whole thing is just a mystery to me. I leave it to her, actually, because it's just a great mystery.
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.
I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
In my family, they were all big boozers.
I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.
My mom, who left Iran in 1976, steeped us in the smells, tastes, and traditions of Persian cuisine.
Growing up in Luton, we'd always eat on a cloth, placed on the floor of the living room, with no TV allowed. There were no chairs back in Bangladesh and Dad wanted to keep the tradition, so we never owned a dining table.
A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings.
My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.
My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.
I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way.
In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old.
I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
