Tell us about your journey into the food world. Where did it begin and how?
I come from a long line of “food people”; my great grandfather chose to be a cook in the Bolshevik army rather than fight, my great uncle wrote a cookbook in the Soviet Union and, of course, all of the women in my family are the kind who knew how to make something from whatever they could find. Some of my fondest childhood memories auditions were taking place. I auditioned to have the chance to continue building my skillset and meet likeminded people. That was a decade ago! The rest, as they say, is history.
