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With four children at home, Ziggy Marley and his wife Orly are blending their traditions in the kitchen and beyond.

“Food really opened my mind about accepting and understanding different cultures,” Marley, 48, says in the new issue of PEOPLE. “It brings our family together.”

Indeed, the Grammy-winning reggae singer enjoys meals at home in Los Angeles with his brood—which includes his and Orly’s four kids, Judah, 11, Gideon, 9, Abraham, 5, and Isaiah, 7 months—as well as extended family members. “My wife is Middle Eastern—she’s from Israel; her parents are from Iran—so when we got married, the food got blended,” he says of Orly, 33. “I introduced her to my favorites, like fish, porridges and different Caribbean seasonings. And her family introduced me to the falafels and rice.”

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