GYPSY KITCHEN

When I realized in 2010 that my calling was not in academics but in working with my hands to bring people health and happiness through food, I decided to enroll in culinary school. I love food, and people will always need to eat... I'd been in and out of the food service industry since I was 15, though, working at coffee shops and restaurants but after I started the Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts program in Denver I was able to come into Two Sisters Bakery in my hometown of Homer, Alaska as a prep cook and quickly became sous chef. I've part-time prep-cooked at Mermaid Cafe in Homer, as well and in Denver I spent a 3-month internship at Lous Food Bar working with a cheese microbiologist and manning the charcuterie station.