ABOUT THIS COOK:

Mom, wife and chief dishwasher. I am a personal chef, have cooked pretty much since I could walk and am finishing up my degrees in Culinary Arts and Dietetics.

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Baby octopus

• What do you cook when home alone?
  pasta, chicken for a salad

• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  my grandmother's spurkle

• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  8