I have always had a passion for cooking, traveling to experience cuisines, learning new techniques, and recreating the foods I love. I began cooking out of necessity when my mom went through a phase when I was in high school, when she stopped using butter, oil, salt....basically flavor. We called it, "The era when mom removed all flavor from food." When she was out for the evening, I stepped up and started to cook for my dad and brother. I loved it, they loved it and I was hooked and endlessly curious. I supported myself in college by developing menus and shopping and preparing private meals for students wanting to impress their friends or "interests", and yeas later, my mother and I opened a full service tea house and ice cream salon called Pure T, in San Francisco, where we developed and manufactured 25 flavors of tea-infused ice cream. While my professional career took me in the direction of owning a naming and branding firm for 20 years, it is cooking for my family and friends, events and parties, that has always made me the happiest. I am now ready to cook full time. My confidence in cooking is such that local food "legends" in Sacramento, Darrell Corti and Kurt Sputaro are regulars at my table. I am a positive person and work cleanly, I have a great sense of humor....I am looking forward to the opportunity of cooking for you!Read less