MEET SABRINA
Hello! My name is Sabrina. I am so glad you are here. For as long as I can remember I have always been in the kitchen! I started cooking with my grandmother when I was a little girl. We were always baking; pies, cakes, cookies and always home made jam. She instilled in me a love of fine food. We did everything from scratch: tomato sauce made with fresh basil and tomatoes from the garden, blackberry jam from blackberries we picked that morning from our neighbors berry patch. Pies! oh my god, that was her specialty. I can still see her fingers in the pie dough, reminding me to not work it too hard as she kneaded the fat into the flour. She taught me to put capers in Tuna Salad and to brown the butter for the Sweetbreads .. and her Pot Roast ...
I could talk all day about my grandmother. She really was a French Chef. To this day, I do not know where or how she learned to cook the way she did. It was only years later, when I won an International Rotary Grant to study Classical French Cuisine in Paris did I start to understand how truly remarkable my first Culinary Instructor was. Thank you Nana!
She was overjoyed when I landed a job as an Editorial Assistant at the prestigious Gourmet Magazine in Manhattan. From Gourmet I went to Paris and reveled in the gastronomic capital of the world. It was a dream to live in Paris. To this day, I consider it my other home. My first meal in Paris, you ask? Mais qui! I remember every detail: Soupe a L'Oignon topped with a thick, bubbly layer of Gruyere cheese, followed by Moules Marinieres and a delicious plate of pommes frites, piping hot and salted perfectly and finally the piece de resistance, dessert, Tartes au Myrtilles with Creme Anglaise . Divine!
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From Paris, I returned to the states and paid my dues working on the line of many fine restaurants up and down the Gold Coast and ran a successful Restaurant and Catering business with my partner. All that was the foundation for our company today, La Jolie Chef, a tapestry of travel, food, culture and people.
