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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★James Beard Foundation Award - Best Chef: Great Lakes (2017)
★James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef semifinalist (2019, 2020)
★Michelin star at Spiaggia for three consecutive years
★Eater Chicago's Chef of the Year (2011 Eater Awards)
★Rising Star Chef by Chicago Social magazine (2009, 2016)
★MenuMasters Innovator of the Year
★Restaurant of the Year - Jean Banchet Awards (2018)
Notable Facts
→James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef/partner of Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio in Chicago
→Previously executive chef at Michelin-starred Spiaggia for three consecutive years
→Top Chef Texas finalist (finished 2nd place)
→Author of cookbook 'Listen To Your Vegetables' (2022)
→Opened Monteverde in November 2015 with business partner Meg Sahs
→Has 24K Instagram followers
→Born in Houston, moved to Chicago in 2005
→Youngest female sous chef at Brennan's of Houston at age 22
→Member of Independent Restaurant Coalition and Southern Foodways Alliance
→Board member of Southern Smoke Foundation
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