Elizabeth grew up in Virginia Beach, left for a while and returned.

She started cooking at local restaurants (Azars, Surfrider, The New Belmont) at the age of sixteen. During her early years she learned how to work with seafood and  how to cook Southern style and Middle Eastern cuisines. These restaurants, their chefs/owners and her culinary school studies were the catalysts of her professional life as a chef.

 

Elizabeth wanted to explore her passion to gastronomy more, so she moved to Los Angeles in 2003. There she began to work at some of the top restaurants (Lucques, Spago, The Executive Dining Room at Paramount Studios) and continued to grow under James Beard award winning chefs (Suzanne Goin, Wolfgang Puck).

These extraordinary places and brilliant chefs shaped Elizabeth's cooking style and motivated her to expand her knowledge further.  She mastered Californian farm-to-table style of cooking, which has become the core of her cooking philosophy.
 

Through the years she filled her time not only working at restaurants, but cooking with several leading catering companies of Los Angeles. These events further allowed her to experience different culinary styles,  gave her opportunities to lead different teams of cooks,  to work with several prestigious event coordinating companies and introduced her to a more intimate form of serving her clientele. These events soon led her into people's homes and she became a private chef.

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As a personal chef she worked with numerous A-list celebrities, high net worth/ Forbes 500 clients and cooked for people who needed to be on special diets due to illness and/or had strict dietary restrictions. While working with her clients she was in charge of creating daily nutritious meals for the whole family, taking care of grocery shopping, menu planning, stocking the pantry and often planed and catered small to big dinner parties, special tastings or other gatherings.

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While working with a private clientele she was able to travel the world. She spent three years in Europe (England, Germany, Malta, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia,Hungary). 
She was able to gain tremendous experience from learning about these country's culture. 

While working in Hungary she hosted tasting nights at a local gourmet shop and she appeared on a cooking TV show.
She studied the gastronomy of specific regions while visiting towns such as Opatija, Venice, San Remo, Nice, Cannes, Marseille, Barcelona, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, London, and several islands of Greece.

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Elizabeth's cooking style has been shaped by all the above and you can find these influences in her dishes, professional demeanor and philosophy. 

In her free time she enjoys gardening and growing her own vegetables. You can find her at the local farmers' markets or follow her adventures traveling the world to taste more food.