Owner Nina Parrott has been involved in the food industry in various capacities for over 14 years. She attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and worked at various restaurants in the Bay Area, including Fog City Diner and in the catering department of the Campton Place Hotel-a four-star, five diamond property on Union Square. She also worked in the Food Section of the San Francisco Chronicle as a writer, researcher and recipe-tester; and as a restaurant reviewer for Bay Area Citysearch. She has also worked in the food marketing industry, helping develop recipes and marketing strategies for such clients as Kikkoman, the National Potato Board and the Almond Board of California. Nina has been a personal chef and caterer in the Bay Area for over three years, and recently moved to Newton, MA with her husband Eric and infant son, Brody.