we left our careers for our love of food
Crammed inside a pub, Samantha Evans and Shauna Guinn served their first barbecue feast one cold night in 2012. Their temporary South Wales pub kitchen takeover, serving mouth-watering recipes – curated on an epic 2011 road trip through the Deep South – was the first of many.
‘Before cooking together, we’d talked a lot about quitting our careers,’ explains Shauna, a former social worker. Samantha was a graphic designer and, together, the couple quit a busy life in London to fulfil a lifelong dream of touring the world.
‘The three most important things that inspire and connect us to each other and everyone we meet are music, food and travel,’ Shauna says. The couple, who’ve been together for 22 years, have an obsession with country music and outdoor cooking. Samantha says, ‘Neither of us
