Israeli-American celebrity chef and restaurant owner Alon Shaya has been cooking and working in restaurants nearly all of his life.

“The first thing I ever made by myself was hamentashen,” the author of Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel, says. “I was 7 years old.”

He called his mom at work and she talked him through the recipe.

“She was wondering if I was gonna burn the house down,” he said. “But I got them done, and they came up pretty good.”

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