How long have you been baking?

- Eight years

But you're so young!  How did you get started?

- I started right out of high school.  I attended culinary school and started baking then.  I grew up cooking.  Me and my dad would make our own bread, pasta and sausages.  In high school I helped my friends' mom catering on the side and she suggested I go to culinary school, so I did. (Thanks, Marsha!)

Did you ever think you'd be slinging pizza pies for a living?

- No.  Definitely not

What have you learned working over at Serious Pie?

- How to make really good pizza.  Funny thing is, in school I had a brown bag final (where culinary students get a bunch of ingredients handed to them and they have to make something straight away).  In my bag I had a bunch of ingredients that I thought 'Man, this would be great pizza'.  It was a horrible flop, though.  My teachers were not impressed.  It's ironic that now I make really good pizza.

What's your favorite thing to bake?

- I love making ficelle and ciabatta.  I could make those two breads all day and be really happy.

You're getting married soon.  Do you know what you'll serve for dinner?

- We're going to do a French Rivieria theme and serve big seafood platters, raw oysters, bread, cheese, wine & lots of booze.

If you could be anywhere else right now, where would you be?

- On vacation in the Bahamas in the sunshine with the salt water ocean.