Whether you are planning a five course meal for 10 or a corporate event for 350, expect creative menus and attention to detail.

Curriculum
Garnering the contract to standardize and write the three-year Chicago Public High School curriculum, Susan partnered with her mentor and sometime business associate, Mark Facklam. Look for more to come from this team.

Training
  • Corporate and private clients
  • Custom design a cooking course for your staff or yourself
Recipe/Menu Testing/Development
Susan's work has included recipe testing as well as developing signature recipes.

Community Outreach
Working with the National Environmental Trust, Susan garnered chef support against using the overly and illegally fished "Chilean Sea Bass" or Patagonian Toothfish and coordinated the Chicago press launch.

She regularly donates her signature empanadas to Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming, indicating her commitment to the environment and sustainable farming.

Food Writing
A good mesh of her skills, Susan is the food editor for Caribbean Today in which she writes a monthly column.

Consulting
  • Creatively plates dishes for restaurant and trade shows for Koch Poultry / Aspen Foods and styles plates for photo shoots for company's package design
  • Tested recipes for the Omaha Steaks Cookbook
  • Developed recipes for a local pork purveyor and did the demo for clients
  • Tested candy recipe for marketing company
Susan is an active member of the American Culinary Federation and Culinary Historians of Chicago.







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