{"id":9396,"date":"2024-05-04T15:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/?p=9396"},"modified":"2024-05-04T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T15:29:18","slug":"how-muhammad-ali-shaped-daughter-laila-alis-cooking-career-my-dad-loved-burgers-vu-thuy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/how-muhammad-ali-shaped-daughter-laila-alis-cooking-career-my-dad-loved-burgers-vu-thuy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Muh\u0430mm\u0430d Al\u0456 Sh\u0430\u0440ed D\u0430ughter L\u0430\u0456l\u0430 Al\u0456’\u0455 Cook\u0456ng C\u0430reer: ‘My D\u0430d ‘Loved’ Burger\u0455!’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even though he wasn’t a cook, Muhammad Ali passed his love of food down to his daughter, Laila.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Muhammad Ali wasn\u2019t much of a cook at home \u2014 but he certainly passed his love of food down\u00a0to his daughter Laila.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t remember by dad ever cooking \u2014 just eating!\u201d Laila, 39, tells PEOPLE, from her kitchen in Los Angeles. \u201cHe loved soul food, so he loved the greens, the cornbread stuffing, the baked chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ali\u2019s had a cook prepare all their meals, but Laila fondly thinks back to the days when\u00a0she and her dad\u00a0would head out for his favorite meal, a burger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when I was young, my dad would pick me up from school and take me to the burger joint on the corner,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThey knew him there, they\u2019d call out, \u2018Hey champ!\u2019 when we walked in. My dad LOVED burgers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t anything fancy \u2014 that\u00a0wasn\u2019t Muhammad\u2019s style, Laila says \u2014 \u201cbut the burgers had that good beef that you know they put together by hand and seasoned well, and it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those\u00a0childhood memories\u00a0inspired Laila to create her own version of her dad\u2019s favorite meal, which she winkingly calls \u201cThe Greatest of All Time Burger\u201d in her new cookbook,\u00a0Food for Life<\/em>, due out in January.<\/p>\n

RELATED VIDEO: When Was Laila Ali\u2019s Last Cheat Meal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other than the occasional burger, Laila says that her dad was pretty health-conscious to keep up his boxing strength. She adopted that lifestyle too when she entered the ring as a teen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned that the purpose of food was to nourish my body, because it was going to affect my performance either way,\u201d she says. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to eat a slice of cake \u2014 not because it was going to make me fat, but because the sugar was going to affect me in the boxing ring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laila, a self-taught cook, figured out how to make lighter versions of the soul food recipes that she grew up eating, many of which fill the pages of her book. And those recipes \u2014 her stewed chicken in particular \u2014 became some of her dad\u2019s favorites.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the flavors that I actually prepare in my own kitchen for my own family. That I cooked for my father that he ate,\u201d Laila says of her book. \u201cNo one else is going to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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