I Know This to Be True: Ayesha Curry

By Chronicle Books Digital

Featuring heartwarming advice from celebrated figures, this stirring series helps readers discover their path in life and follow it with intention, courage, and purpose.

Former actress, celebrity cook, author, and TV host Ayesha Curry wears many hats, but the most important things in her life are faith and family. With astounding vulnerability, she talks about the important work she's done with the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation that she founded with her husband, Stephen Curry, her commitment to feeding and caring for children, and what it means to use her celebrity influence to have an impact on her community. Ayesha Curry is a role model for anyone who is looking to have a positive impact on their community, proving that entrepreneurship and social justice can work together to raise people up.

The I Know This to Be True series of books is inspired by Nelson Mandela's legacy and created in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to inspire a new generation of leaders.

Extraordinary figures from diverse backgrounds answer the same questions, sharing their compelling stories, guiding ideals, and insightful wisdom. The result is a landmark collection of books brimming with messages of leadership, courage, compassion, and hope. Delivered in lovely, giftable jacketed hardcovers with vivid photographic portraits throughout, these books offer encouragement and guidance to graduates, future leaders, and anyone hoping to make a positive impact on the world.

Royalties from sales of this book will support the free distribution of material from the series in countries with developing economies or economies in transition.

• GREAT PACKAGE: With eye-catching covers and stirring content, these books make the perfect gift for anyone looking for a little inspiration and motivation. Shoppers can buy one as a grad gift or several as a set for the changemaker in their life.
• EXPERT ADVICE: Featuring interviews with luminaries and experts, these books contain authoritative advice delivered in an engaging, inviting, and unintimidating way. With rousing messages of hope, perseverance, and courage, I Know This to Be True will inspire a new generation of trailblazers to go out into the world and make a difference.

Perfect for:

• Recent college and high school grads
• Grad gift shoppers
• Professionals young and old looking for advice and inspiration

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Mar 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781797207681

Book preview

Introduction

When we approached Ayesha Curry to be part of the I Know This to Be True series, we were warmly invited to her office and studio in Oakland, California, USA. In a first act of generosity and trust, despite knowing there would be nobody there, we were given the building’s entry code and told to go in as early as we like before the interview, take our time to set up, and make ourselves at home.

This initial kindness manifested in a dozen other ways. When she and her husband, Stephen, arrived, Ayesha immediately put us at ease with her relaxed, unaffected manner and natural warmth. All of us were seen, regardless of our role in the crew, and it seemed to us that this thoughtfulness is at the heart of who Ayesha Curry is.

The kindness continued when, after the interview, she worried whether we had somewhere to eat for dinner. Learning that we planned to dine at her San Francisco restaurant, International Smoke, she took the time to call the restaurant and ask them to bring us special desserts.

After our interviews, the Currys recorded a public service announcement for ESPN, before leaving to offer their support for an inspiring leader in the community who runs a boxing training facility for local underserved children. All part of the ‘service before self’ ethos that seems to come naturally to Ayesha Curry.

Food was a central part of her childhood while growing up in Toronto, Canada. An instrument that brought the family together, it gave them a chance to sit and connect. And it was exciting – simple, nutritious home cooking with vibrant flavour. ‘My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I grew up in a kitchen full of all kinds of interesting flavour combinations’, she explains.¹ With four siblings, she was expected to help around the house, and she chose cooking as her chore. It was the beginning of a long-lasting love affair with food.

After moving to the United