WAY BEFORE I STARTED MAKING VIDEOS ON TIKTOK, I’d always loved cooking as a hobby, learning early on from my mom, who had a home-cooked meal for us every day. When I was in college, I experimented with cooking—nothing too extravagant, but my meat loaf was always a hit. Since then, I’ve been married for 23 years and have done most of the cooking in the house. I have three children, twins (a boy and a girl) who are 22 and a 16-year-old daughter, all of whom have taken up an interest in cooking.
While my twins were freshmen at Arizona State University during the fall of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was all anyone was talking about. My buddy Rick and I decided to drive my kids’ car from Chicago, Illinois, and drop it off in Phoenix so they would have a means of transportation around campus. On that trip, Rick expressed his interest in TikTok, a social media app that had been getting lots of news. I’d never really heard of it and
