On my mother's side I'm first generation Chinese, though my mother came here at age 3 so she's not far off from being native herself. She was the family chef, but wasn't a particularly good one... Plus dad's big on the meat and she cooked what he liked. Mom tells me that the reason I'm not big on veggies is that when I was weaned I loved veggies and hated meat, but I was iron deficient so they scrimped on the veggies and made me eat more meat and that's what I stuck with. *shrug*