About The Chef

Women in aprons can be mighty mischievous,
and just a little dangerous,
when wielding a chef’s knife.

The Garden Kitchen is my playground, my passion, and my declaration that like life, food should be bold, witty, and unapologetically delicious.

My favorite time of day?
An unhurried, indulgent and well-deserved dinner after a hard day’s work. Because to me, a dinner is never about functionality;
if stretched long enough, it is the event.

Flashback to when I was nine years old at boarding school in the Himalayan foothills. While my schoolmates perfected their multiplication tables, I was far more vested in Home Economics and English Composition, never quite knowing where those unlikely aptitudes would take me.

Forty years later, they fuel The Garden Kitchen:
part culinary anthropology, part food sociology, and part travelogue - all served family-style. Travel is my muse, and food is its language. And every journey, inevitably, ends with a leisurely
Garden Kitchen dinner.