I was born and raised in Chicago, where I worked for the first decade of my cooking career. Then I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I'd been living and working for four years when the pandemic hit, which prompted my wife and I to move to Louisville, KY where we currently live. With close to a dozen professional kitchens worked in and over a hundred cooks/chefs worked with, my aim is for all of the experience I've gained therein to find its way onto this blog. Hopefully, what I have to offer will serve as a source of information and insight on all things food and cooking for both home cooks and professionals alike -- much of which might even be suitable for both! At the end of the day, I just want to offer my experience and resulting expertise to help all of us interact more amicably with the sometimes brutal -- but always beautiful world of cooking.