Tia Mowry on Cookout Season, Family Traditions, and Why Bounty Is a Must-Have Essential | EUR EXCLUSIVE

With cookout season officially underway, Tia Mowry is ready to fire up the grill – and she’s making sure she’s stocked with everything she needs to host right. The actress and entrepreneur recently partnered with Bounty to kick off the season, and she says the brand has been a household staple for as long as she can remember. “Ever since I was in the kitchen at six years old, I was helping my mom cook,” Mowry recalled. “I was like her sous chef… Bounty was there. In my twenties, when I moved into my first apartment, I’m like, what essentials do I need? Bounty was right there, front and center.” For Mowry, the appeal is simple: durability and efficiency. “It has to be, you know, tough enough to tackle things that are coming my way.

Durable, right? And I love that it’s like a one and done – you have more messes with just fewer sheets.” But beyond the paper towels, Mowry says what truly makes a cookout memorable comes down to something less tangible. “There has to be music. There has to be dancing, family, friends, board games, or a deck of cards,” she said. “Laughter – I think that’s also what’s really important. It’s all about creating these memories whenever you gather people together.” View this post on Instagram She added, “I just hosted a girls’ night.

A whole bunch of my girlfriends, they came to my house, and it’s about connection. It’s about creating memories. It’s about slowing time down, and leaning on one another and being there for one another. It’s about togetherness for me.” When it comes to her cookout role, Mowry wears more than one hat. “I’m definitely putting myself in the role of the host, but also I’m the cook, you know what I mean?

I’m the one that’s, you know, throwing things down – whether that’s making burgers, short ribs, chicken wings.” She credits that passion for cooking to her earliest memories, including one that still makes her hungry just thinking about it. “I have a great memory of a cookout when I was a young little one, I was maybe about eight years old and I used to live in Hawaii and my dad, he would throw these gatherings and we would do them at the beach,” she said. “And what made it so special was my dad would go out and catch whatever it was that he was going to grill. So he would take his little spearfish and he would swim all the way out and he would gather eel and he would throw that on the grill.” As for the most underrated role at any cookout? Mowry gives credit to the cleanup crew. “… the people who are, you know, walking around with the Bounty rolls and helping keep everything tidy,” she said, adding: “every role is extremely important. You can’t do one without the other.” Away from the grill, Mowry says the most rewarding chapter of her career has come from stepping into entrepreneurship – specifically through her haircare line. “I started to see that there has been a void in the haircare space when it comes to textured hair and wellness and accessibility and just family in general,” she explained. “And so I was like, you know what, let me go ahead and create something myself.” For someone who has spent more than three decades in the entertainment industry – across television, film, books, and beyond – Mowry sees all of it as preparation for what she’s building now. “I have been in this industry for over 30 years and I feel very blessed to have been a part of many projects and TV shows and movies and books, et cetera,” she said. “But I think that was and is the stepping stone to where I am today, which is giving back to the community in some kind of way.

And it’s been really fun and rewarding.” MORE NEWS ON EURWEB.COM: Tia Mowry’s Parenting Philosophy Sparks Online Debate Over Child Independence Sign up for our Free daily newsletter HERE