Meet Our Staff

Carson

Who would play you in a movie?
Jim Carrey

What things are always in your fridge?
Beer, blue cheese dressing, mustard

If you were a type of food, what would you be?
Anything Spicy

What food reminds you of your childhood?
Collard greens cooked with ham-hock and drizzled with apple cider vinegar.

Favorite cookbook?
What Einstein Told His Cook

Pirates or Ninjas?
Pirate Ninjas of course..........

Insider Tip?
Follow your passions and never stop learning.

Don

What food reminds you of your childhood?
Homemade Italian gravy

What things are always in your fridge?
Beer, peanut butter, mustard.

If you were a type of food, what type of food would you be?
Stromboli

If you were a salad, what kind of dressing would you have?
Bleu Cheese Dressing

Favorite cookbooks?
Tassajara Bread Book

Annie

What food reminds you of your childhood?
Vietnamese dishes like pho and bun rieu

What things are always in your fridge?
onions, butter, Better Than Bouillon Concentrated Chicken Stock, extra extra sharp cheddar, and Yumm Sauce.

What is the title of your biography?
A Work in Progress - the Story of a Pastry Fool

If you weren't a chef, what would be have been?
If I wasn't a chef, I would be: An fiction writer, a photographer, or a forensic anthropologist.

Music in the kitchen?

Yes, it's must! I like all sorts, depending on my mood. Dragonette, Grace Potter and the Nocturnal, the Black Keys, Chromeo, Phoenix...

Favorite cookbooks?
Way too many! For instance: the whole America's Test Kitchen series, Momofuku by David Chang, Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen..

Dale

What food reminds you of your childhood?
Instant Coffee

Always with you?
Clean shorts and a sense of relief

If you were a salad what kind of dressing would you be?
Depends upon the weather

If someone wrote a biography about you, what do you think the title should be?
I was very young when it started!

What three things are always in your refrigerator?
Cold air, a rotating selection of consumable products and a light bulb.

If you could trade places with any other person for a week, with whom would it be?
Can I choose the week from the other persons life?
How much will the legal fees be if this requires some sort of contractual agreement?
If I trade places with a dead person will I come back in a week to find I have been fired for not showing up for work?

Evelyn

What foods reminds you of your childhood?
Escargots, tripes, scallops, and head cheese
Layers of cooked endives with ham drowning in a bechamel sauce and cheese
Roasted chicken every sunday after lunch

Music in the kitchen?
Barbara, K D Lang, Michel Jonas, Lily Wood and the Prick, White Rabbit.

If you were a type of food, what type of food would you be?
I would be a bottle of champagne

Always with you?
4 different kinds of lipstick

What can most people do that you cannot do?
Parallel parking in less than 10 minutes

If you could trade places with any other person for a week, with whom would it be?
Vanessa Paradis to be married to Johnny Deppe for a week and swim with him in his pool in Southern France

Becky

What food reminds you of your childhood?
Tuna casserole, spaghetti, chili. Anything my dad knew how to make.

Your Hero?
Mostly fictional characters. Strong, pure-hearted fictional characters.

Favorite cookbooks?
Japanese ones!

Always with you?
My phone. Too obvious?

What fictional character would you most like to eat?

Seriously? Chicken little... Chickens are edible

What can most people do that you cannot?
Whistle. It seems like it at least... What three things do you always have in your refrigerator?
Butter, eggs and milk. And I don't even bake things.