Experience
2024 - Present
Private Chef
PL MealsBoston, MA
2010 - 2012
CDP Garde Manger, Assagi, Pasta stations. AM/PM Fish Roast, AM Meat roast
Del PostoNew York, NY
Education
2004 - 2008
Bachelor of Science
Princeton UniversityPrinceton, NJ
2009 - 2010
Institute of Culinary Education New York, NY
Advice from Paige Lombardi
Quotes about career path, skills, and teamwork from an industry leader.
I rowed crew in college and always did endurance-style sports growing up.
I liked right away that cooking for a living was sort of like continuing one of those sports, in that to be successful, you needed to push yourself physically, mentally, and even emotionally sometimes! It seems like people either learn that fact or don't, and I think I always really did.
The skills I look for when hiring new team members are common sense, positivity, self-motivation, and work ethic.
One million books!
I have a pretty large and constantly-growing collection of cookbooks that I try work my way through on the regular.
I find inspiration everywhere!
Really! Lots of reading, but also just looking at pictures - how things are cut, a different way of preparing a vegetable than I would think to do, etc. Checking out what other chefs all over the world are doing via Instagram. Going out to eat, in as many varied places as possible.
The one thing I can’t live without when I'm working the line is my big Kunz spoon.
I think my hand is pretty calibrated to it by now. Otherwise, my notebook. Lots of thoughts get recorded in there at all times of the day and night that eventually make their way into dishes!
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