‘We weren’t brought up to be cooks or singers or actors. We were taught to be creatives’—JUSSIE SMOLLETT Love of cooking has always brought the Smollett family together. It was the reason the six siblings starred on their Food Network show Smollett Eats in 2016, and it’s what prompted four of the six—Jazz, Jussie, Jurnee and Jake—to write their first cookbook, The Family Table, out this spring. Filled with dishes they loved toeat and recipes inspired by their travels and their African-American, Jewish and New Orleans roots, “it’s a love letter to our childhood,”says Jussie,whostarsonFOX’sEmpire. Those early years, of course, were when food and family meals first became central to their lives. Growing up, Jojo, now 40, Jazz, 38, Jussie, 36, Jurnee, 31, Jake, 28, and Jocqui, 24, moved…
