Production Manager

What do you do on a daily basis?
Manage and oversee the culinary expenses when we’re making food shows

Who is your culinary icon?
Charlie Granquist

Who is your favorite food TV personality, past or present?
Also Charlie Granquist (he was sitting next to me while I was filling this out)

What’s your favorite cookbook?
Anything with bacon recipes in it

What dish or ingredient will we never catch you eating?
Seafood

What’s your favorite condiment?
Lizano sauce (Costa Rican salsa)

What’s the first dish you learned to make?
My grandpa’s meatloaf

Sweet tooth, salty tooth or both?
Both — chocolate and salt together

What kitchen tool can’t you live without?
Wooden spoon

What music do you like to listen to in the kitchen?
Eighties love ballads

What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage?
The “I’ll be bombed for Christmas Chai-Tini” my best friend makes when I come to visit

If you weren’t in food, what career would you have liked to have tried?
Marine biologist

What’s your favorite “food city” to visit?
Charleston, South Carolina