Snapshot

  • Location: Sacramento
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Married

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About Me

  • First job: Washing windows and cleaning kitchen mats at the Fish Emporium
  • Where I work: BiteClub, Inc.
  • Best things about my gig: Connecting with all the great people in this community
  • Worst things about my gig: Not enough hours in the day to get done what I need to get done
  • Career ambitions: To have a positive effect on the food and bev industry, and to provide a lasting resource for all to use
  • Joined BiteClub for: connect with the global restaurant and bar culture
  • Status: Married
  • Signature recipe: Paella
  • Home Town: Sacramento
  • My mentors: John Baccigaluppi, Randy Paragary, Russ Solomon, Kurt Spataro, Frank Washington
  • Heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Mom, Wifey
  • Favorite restaurants: La Esquina, Tuli Bistro, Town Hall, Farmer Brown, oh, and did I say Tuli Bistro?
  • For my last meal I'll have: Fried egg sandwich on toasted sourdough with mayonnaise, melted cheddar
  • Favorite food and bev blogs/ websites: http://www.biteclub.com/culinologist/blog/
  • Favorite travel destinations: New York, Chamonix, France, Italy, Lake Tahoe, The Northwest
  • This is always in my fridge: hummus, beer, soy sauce
  • Favorite munchies: Cashews
  • Interests and hobbies: Music, cooking, travel
  • You'll never find me at: A Westland/Hallmark slaughterhouse
  • Recommended reading: Kitchen Confidential, Tipping Point, Blink, The Success Principles, Think Like A Chef, The Search
  • Tools of the trade: iMac 20", iPhone, G4 Laptop, gift of gab, instincts, experience, Nikon S1 Digicam, Ogio laptop bag, wine opener, a fat bar tab, lots of good connections, good friends, good food
  • Last vacation: Squawllywood
  • Morning ritual:

    Wake up call from Phoenix, Dark Roast from the Capresso, NPR,  kid drop off, put iTunes on shuffle, open email, log into BiteClub, read Mashable, and plan ways to make this site better.

  • My tunes:

    Beck, Rolling Stones, The National, Jimi Hendrix, Deftones, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Skirts, Bowie, Jawbreaker, Daycare, Chromeo

  • About me:

    I grew up playing guitar. That was my first love. But I also spent a lot of time in Mom's kitchen learning to cook. My second love. Music and Food. Two fo my favorite things. Then some friends and I started a magazine as a scam to get free lift tickets at Boreal, a Tahoe resort where jibbing started. We were poor skater/musicians who snowboarded a few times a year, and loved it. It was a way to snowboard for free. From there, I was bitten by the publishing bug and did it for 10 years, even publishing the magazine on UseNet, and eventually, the World Wide Web. I eventually burned out. After years of being in and out of working in restaurants (disher, busser, server, maintainence), I wanted back in and found myself as a pantry cook at a very busy restaurant. I got my ass kicked pretty good, but held it down. It was there that this idea for biteclub was born. And here we are.