About
Born and raised in New Orleans, Elizabeth grew up with a merely average interest in all things culinary. But after achieving her Bachelor’s of Industrial Design from Auburn University, and moving back in with her parents, she found herself in an enviable situation: if she cooked, her parents would buy whatever food she wanted. (Her mother is still famously on the search for a house without a kitchen, but they’ve usually put one of those stupid things in there by the time she sees it.) It wasn’t a difficult choice, faced with the option of fast food every night, or cooking a proper healthy meal. Her interest was piqued further by a stint as a food-runner in the kitchen of famed New Orleans restaurant Commander’s Palace. So began her ever-increasing love of cooking.
After evacuating to her sister’s house in Louisville, Kentucky, in avoidance of Hurricane Katrina, Elizabeth found herself at a crossroads, and decided to take her hobby more seriously. She enrolled in Sullivan University’s Baking and Pastry Arts program, and was graduated Magna Cum Laude. After an internship at the award-winning restaurant Proof on Main, she realized the professional fine-dining kitchen was not exactly where she wanted to be. But her love of the Culinary Arts persisted, so what’s a girl to do?
Now, living in Chicago, she hones her culinary skills daily, cooking dinner for herself and her boyfriend, hosting regular dinner parties, and, a few times a year, creating the most unusual birthday cakes (pear, walnut, bleu cheese, and chocolate anyone?). With the firm stance that “it isn’t dinner if there isn’t bread”, she keeps the freezer stocked with an assortment of homemade loaves and rolls. She is still trying to sort out what this whole “life” thing is about exactly, but she’s pretty sure bread is involved somehow.
She is a Cancer, and loves bread and sushi.