Hello from North Carolina!

[Dani Black]

Hello from North Carolina!

I’ve lurked here for many years, finally joining. So first, thanks for all the good advice I’ve read here over the years! You are a kind and generous community. I’m a voracious learner, and look forward to even more insights and information from you. 

I have some pretty unique experience in the culinary and hospitality worlds, including work in residential and inpatient eating disorder treatment (using food, the garden and the kitchen in treatment and recovery) and with inmate culinary students, work release and post-release transition. I am most interested in the intersections of food and community, and love the way food brings people together to our common humanity and enjoyment. So I hope I can add something to the conversation here!

On my career trajectory, I’ve found that the more I chef’d, the less I got to cook. So now that I’m consulting full time, I have more inclination to go back to the kitchen, and that’s been fun : )

Working with culinary entrepreneurs is the primary focus of my consulting practice, which covers a wide range… or as my mother used to say, “a multitude of sins”.

~ Dani

[Smithy]

Welcome!

[Thanks for the Crepes]

Hey there, Dani, and welcome to the forum!

 

It's nice to have a  fellow North Carolinian here. We have some members from the state, but I believe most of them haven't posted anything in a while. I'm looking forward to hearing about your culinary adventures.