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.
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