I just graduated from The Culinary Institute of America. I am working at The Chef's Garden/ The Culinary Vegetable Institute/ Veggie U in Huron/ Milan, OH. I plan on doing some sort of work helping kids in schools eat more healthfully. I really want to teach adults to eat in a more creative, balanced way as well. I love making soup, fish, baking and just playing around with food until I make a tasty combination. It's especially fun cooking right now because I have such ready access to great herbs 'n' produce! Making really great things for me and my friends and family and teaching them how to do it themselves. Every time I make something successfully, it's a huge triumph. As I said before, I love playing around with different ingredients until I make a tasty combination. Whenever something works out well I feel very successful. Putting too much salt into chocolate sauce when I was about eight and when I dropped half a cheesecake on our kitchen floor after spending an hour and a half decorating the stupid thing with fresh fruit and chocolate. ARGH!!!! ;)