sugrdva Profile

Website: www.justfab.com

Here For: Inspiration

Heard about BakeSpace From: A post on Facebook

Occupation: Pastry Chef

Industry: Food & Beverages

Cooker or Caker: Caker

Bake/Cook Frequency: Every day

Baking/Cooking Training: Working in restaurants, hotels, my own baking business, classes with great chefs. No formal training.

Favorite Food: Popcorn

Favorite Food Moment: Tra Vigne, the courtyard, Napa Valley, summer. Pure heaven.

Favorite Cooking Word: Tons of faves that include ingredients as well as terms: vanilla, lavender, souffle, chiffonade, chiffon, ginger, chinoise, crisp, cream, whip, butter (especially when pronounced with a Southern drawl-buttah), nutmeg, fleur de sel

Favoriate Restaurant: Really don't have one favorite restaurant but favorite restaurant towns. San Francisco, Napa Valley, Santa Monica, Paris

Favorite Chef: Elizabeth Faulkner

In My Town Try: The Farmhouse. More will come to me.

Interests: Desserts, Wedding and Special Occasion Cakes, Cupcakes, Cookies

Languages: English and passable Spanish

Books: Soul of a Chef, Kitchen Confidential, Wife of the Chef, A Year in Provence, Like Water for Chocolate, Running with Scissors, Motherless Brooklyn, Bridget Jones Diary, Fast Food Nation, Memoirs of a Geisha, House of Sand and Fog, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, cookbooks, Service Included

Music: Sonya Kitchell, Landon Pigg, Patty Griffin, Mindy Smith, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Ingrid Michaelson, Brandi Carlisle, Sean Mullins, Steve Poltz, Corrine Bailey Rae, Feist, Jason Mraz, KT Tunstall, Natalie Imbruglia, Mark Knopfler, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, The Killers, Neil Young, Shelby Lynne, Tom Waits, 3 Doors Down, Colbie Callait, Counting Crows, John Mayer, Amy Winehouse, Bebel Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Snow Patrol, Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Billie Holiday, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Edith Piaf, etc etc etc

TV/Movies: I LOVE TV! Top Chef, Project Runway, Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations", After Hours with Daniel Bouloud, CSI (Las Vegas-the REAL CSI), any Food Network Challenge involving cake or gingerbread, Ace of Cakes, Californication, Weeds, Dexter, Entourage, the Sopranos. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc. Movies: Dinner Rush, A Good Year, Sideways, Kissing Jessica Stein, La Vie en Rose, Vatel, Last Holiday, Babette's Feast.

Travel: San Francisco, Napa Valley, Chicago, New York