The Many Hats of a Startup Chef

What’s your culinary background?

I grew up in a big family and every month we’d gather and celebrate everyone who had a birthday that month. We’d all cook and have a banquet. When I was in college I studied business administration, but after a couple of years, I wasn’t finding the passion and joy. So I started knocking on doors for a cooking job. I started at small restaurants and chain restaurants and moved into hotels with Marriott. I also moved up the chain from cook to…