CHEF APPLE BIOGRAPHY

Chef Apple is an accomplished Executive Chef, Restaurant Consultant, Photographer, Cookbook Author and Designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. She has cooked for many notable celebrities, personalities and public figures to include: Tom Clancy (Best-selling author) – who swears by her Chilean Sea bass, Michael Phelps (Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record holder), The Prime Minister of The Bahamas; The Right Honorable Hubert A. Ingraham, The Ambassador of The Bahamas Embassy in Washington, DC; C. A. Smith, David Copperfield – Illusionist.

Chef Apple is also the Creator and Owner of 6 Acres-Fancy & Staple: Catering and Desserts, a full service catering company located in Baltimore City, Maryland specializing in elegant food and artistic presentation.  Led by Chef Apple, 6 Acres-Fancy & Staple has an accomplished culinary team of inventive chefs who rise above the expectations of each client’s palette with menus that present engaging flavors.

Apple attended Aquinas College and has experience and skills in Cuban, Italian, French, American, Latin, Spanish, Caribbean, Bahamian, Vietnamese, Mediterranean, Japanese, Chinese and fine-dining cuisine along with other skills such as hiring, training and managing kitchen staff, creating programs that improve quality control, efficiency and resource allocation with primary focus on profitability.

Cooking is her passion and she loves to cook just about as much as she loves to eat! She collects cookbooks as a hobby and reads them like a teenage boy “reads” Playboy. She enjoys food shopping at markets and boutique grocery store and loves hosting dinners for friends and family, experimenting with new recipes and – of course – tabout food. She also has a guilty pleasure for design, and an obsession for ALL things beautiful!

Today, she is in a fortunate position of being able to make a living on food-writing, food and travel photography as well as restaurant consulting.

Chef Apple hosts her own food blog called iamchefapple.com. This site was launched in mid 2010 and is her way of combining her passions for design and food, as well as craft tidbits about the craziness of her life which includes love, friends, family, occasional travel experiences, cookbook reviews and all things related to her!

The premise that iamchefapple.com was built on is best summed up in two sentences: She has a crazy amount of cookbooks, an insatiable appetite for all things concerning food and life. When Apple created this website, she made a decision to be more exploratory with food, in the process, hoping to learn new techniques, explore unfamiliar ingredients, discover/keep track of new recipes, document her successes and failures, and hopefully inspire other cooks to do the same. She also wants to inspire people to live life, to just get out there and live, to really Discover the Chef in you… whether it be cooking or living your life to the fullest!