Even if you've never actually met Emma Lovewell, once you've taken a class from the celebrity fitness phenom, you already feel as if she's your soon-to-be best friend. An instructor for the wildly popular virtual fitness brand Peloton, Emma finds a balance between tough coach and encouraging gal pal as she leads riders through heart-pumping cycling workouts. Off the bike, she's a Renaissance woman, giving her more than 500,000 Instagram followers glimpses into her busy life. One day she's holding a power drill as she's renovating her kitchen, the next she's leading a tour of her expansive vegetable garden. She posts cute photos of her cat, Kimchi, alongside delicious-looking homemade recipes. On her blog, Live Learn Lovewell, she shares those recipes and more. She has a warm smile and an effortlessly cool disposition, and it seems as if there's nothing she can't tackle with ease. But even with all her talents, when you ask her to name one of her biggest points of pride, it all comes back to her Taiwanese roots.
Emma's mother, Teresa, was born in Taiwan and lived there until she was 19, when she moved to the United States. She eventually settled on Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island where Emma and her brother, Alan, were raised. The island wasn't exactly a hotbed of Asian culture, so Teresa had to get creative to ensure her children had a connection to their heritage.
“Around the time I was in junior high, my mom used to teach Chinese cooking classes on the Vineyard once a week,” Emma recalls. “She would invite a group of five or so people into our kitchen and would teach them how to make standard dishes like sweet-and-sour chicken or different types of stir-fries. I would watch and learn Chinese cooking from her, too.
This story is from the February - March 2022 edition of Taste of Home.
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