Well. I:
Discovered a copy of the Joy of Cooking that my mom left behind when my parents divorced.
Got my dad to buy the ingredients for pot roast.
Started cooking family dinner twice a week.
Opened a deli with a guy named Ira.
Worked for a restaurant management company that did theme dinner houses.
Won various Great Menu awards from the NRA (the restaurant people, not the rifle people).
Worked as a food consultant during the Pestozoic Era.
Started as a food writer around the same time and place as Mark Bittman.
Opened and co-owned two money-losing restaurants in Los Angeles.
Patented a truly stunning restaurant POS system.
Helped make high-rise elevators safe for (not from) digital advertising.
Abandoned a much earlier food blog called Eating Away because it was too much work.
Kept the domain name anyway, until blogging got easier.
Cook.
Eat.
Write.
Repeat.