Former Chef de Cuisine at Frenchette

Food and drink are universal languages that bring people together. Those random acts of genuine hospitality are rare and deserve to be cherished. Appreciate those moments that remind you that all your hard work is nurturing an industry that creates experiences for people to be remembered.

There is no other environment where your success is contingent on you and the team being fully immersed with all of your senses and coming together. Taste, touch, smell, hear, and see the stimuli that surrounds you. It makes our work incredibly challenging but in that fragility is the beauty to what we do every day. A lot of good cooking is simply about common sense and about being present. It takes a team to achieve the dream and accomplish the why.

Embrace diversity of backgrounds and perspectives. The more you immerse yourself in this industry, the more you realize that we all come to the same conclusions, regardless of where we are in the world. There is something so beautiful in that, despite all the geographical barriers that place us in different parts of the world, that we are one. Take the time to learn from your peers and learn their stories. Travel when you can. May that every day camaraderie and rapport with your team help you branch out into the world.