Snapshot

  • Location: Chandler, AZ
  • Gender: Female
  • Status: Single
  • Age: 41
  • Member since: June, 2008

About Me

  • First job: Waitress at Jim's Restaurant in Queen Creek AZ....lol
  • Where I work: Envision Lending Group
  • Best things about my gig: Love to help people, my co-workers, my view
  • Worst things about my gig: unable to help as much as I would like
  • Career ambitions: Going Commercial
  • Date of birth: 1/25/1967
  • Joined BiteClub for: Favs of Phoenix
  • Status: Single
  • Home Town: Natrona Heights, PA
  • Heroes: My mom,Kay and my daughter Christa
  • Favorite restaurants: QUIESSENCE
  • For my last meal I'll have: Whatever Chef Christa Chase decides to prepare for me
  • Favorite food and bev blogs/ websites: Zagat and BiteClub
  • Favorite travel destinations: Monterey and Carmel by the Sea- I haven't been out of the country YET
  • This is always in my fridge: Cheese, apples and pears, wine, garlic, Evian
  • Favorite munchies: Cheese with apples and/or pears
  • Interests and hobbies: Fine food, fine wine, music, working out, hiking, traveling
  • You'll never find me at: Filibertos, Mickey Ds, Olive Garden, any fast food
  • Tools of the trade: hmmmm.....a wine glass and a fork...lol
  • Last vacation: Bay area...Monterey and Carmel were my favs...can't wait to go back!!!
  • Morning ritual:

    Run...(ok, depending on the night before...maybe walk) or work out, get ready for work while jamming out to some tunes, a Black Pearl...then on with the day

  • My tunes:

    A HUGE mix-small ex: Bob Marley, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Beetles, Lil Wayne, Lil Jon, Slightly Stoopid, Deathcab for Cuties, Ziggy Marley, Mariah, Bob Dylan, Jakob Dylan, Anna Nalick, John Mayer, Disturbed, Primus....whatever the mood brings

  • About me:

     I love my 3 girls! They are number one to me and always will be! I can't help but be proud of them and who they have become. I, on the other hand,  may be 41 years old but I don't act or think like it...that may be good,... that may be bad...depending on the circumstances.

Industry Insights

  • Favorite beer: Delirium Tremens, Chimay
  • Your cocktail of choice: Chopin on the rocks
  • Wine recommendation: Hogin!!! Far Niete, Stag's Leap-well...love the Napa region...Waters Wines from Walla Walla, WA-some French, Italians, and Australians, hmmm the list could go on and on and on.....
  • Favorite bartender and why: ME!!!...well I guess I don't count anymore since I am not in the biz anymore...so..I would say Marie at Fox and Hound in Gilbert AZ
  • Where I go to have drinks: Kazimierz World Wine Bar
  • Favorite chef and why: Chef Greg LaPrad-his creative yumminess...but also the up and coming Christa Chase-altho now San Francisco has her.
  • One food I have been dying to try: Ummm...that is a tough one...I have had the good fortune to be able to try just about everything I have wanted because of my beautiful daughter/chef Christa Chase..Update...went to see Christa at her restaurant...had goat chops with cranberry beans, cucumber-melon-lemon soup, rabbit confett...all kinds of ther stuff I haven't had....yummy!!!.
  • Most memorable meal: Just got back from visiting Christa in Frisco...she is working at Oliveto in Oakland....AMAZING food she prepared there....and the last ones Christa cooked for us before she moved to San Francisco
  • Favorite cookbook: Anything by Alice Waters and Thomas Keller
  • Favorite food city: San Francisco/Phoenix
  • If I could have dinner with any chef in the world, I would choose: The beautiful, talented, up-and-coming Christa Chase whom studied under Chef Greg and Sous Chef Tony. C. And of course,chef Greg LaPrad and/or Sous Chef Anthony Andiario