About Your Blogger

My passion for cooking began as a child, spending time in the kitchen with my parents and my Sicilian grandmother. While other children were watching Sesame Street, I was watching the greats Julia Child and Graham Kerr.

After a lifetime of cooking, baking, and catering for events, friends, and family; I decided to start my own Personal Chef Service. In August 2005, I completed the Culinary Business Academy’s Personal Chef training program. I am also a member of the United States Personal Chef’s Association. Unlike some Chefs I know, I am not "classically" trained in the culinary arts. I am self taught, having learned on my own with my family and through recreational cooking classes.

My culinary education is not completely informal; I have completed recreational classes at the California Culinary Academy, in the Weekend Gourmet Program in San Francisco and locally in the Professional Chef Program at the New School of Cooking in Culver City.

I believe the kitchen is a great place for building memories as well as delicious meals. My style of cooking is all about making quick, healthy, easy meals for the everyday person. There is no reason even the busiest family or single can't enjoy a delicious meal. I am known to"McGuyver" meals in the kitchen. I keep this attitude in my own kitchen, not to say I never follow a recipe, but some of the best recipes I have ever created started with a pantry raid.

Today, I work hard to create meals for my clients with all the love and attention I give the meals I prepare for my friends and family, because as far as I am concerned, my clients are my family.

I grew up in Maryland, earned my Bachelors of Science in Psychology from High Point University, in North Carolina, and my Masters of Arts in Education, from Virginia Tech, in Virginia. I live in Redondo Beach, California and serve clients in the South Bay and surrounding communities.