Chef's Spotlight: Chef Jonelle Luchsinger
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Chef's Spotlight: Chef Jonelle Luchsinger
/ Jan 31st, 2018 7:40 pm     A+ | a-

This month's Chef's Spotlight: Meet Chef Jonelle!

Chef Jonelle Luchsinger Chef Jonelle Luchsinger
Raised in Anchorage, Alaska and Upstate NY, Chef Jonelle began her informal culinary training at a 100-year-old restaurant on one of The Finger Lakes. She quickly fell in love with cooking and decided to continue her education at Johnson & Wales University. She graduated in 2007 with an associate's degree. Eager to practice her skills and further her education through experience, she worked for a variety of restaurants ranging in Middle Eastern, Modern American and Italian cuisines. She took pride in starting from the bottom, working her way up each station, absorbing everything she could along the way. An opening in the in-house bakery of Rosalies Cucina, where she worked on the line, led to a full-time head baker position and a new love for bread and pastries. She would later go on to work under Maurizio Negrini, of Izzio's, learning the art of Artisan Italian Bread. Restaurant and bakery industries can be rough. They generally require working long hours on your feet during nights, weekends and holidays. In return, the pay is low, the benefits are few and the turnover is high causing for stressful working conditions. Even in the best managed restaurants, it's hard to find a work/life balance while working opposite schedules as the rest of society. The high demands paired with few rewards of the industry can quickly turn the passion you once had into resentment. Five years after switching gears to Quality Assurance and Food Safety Roles, she found herself once again on her feet, in her kitchen most nights and weekends. This time cooking not only because she wanted to, but because she had to. An artist needs a creative outlet and a chef needs to cook! Chef Jonelle is currently one year into her dream job at Friend that Cooks! She is able to spend her days cooking; doing what she loves all while having endless creative freedom, a desirable schedule, a great management team supporting her, and amazing clients to cook for! Chef Jonelle currently lives in a north suburb of Denver. She likes to grow her own vegetables and is planning her wedding that will take place later this year.
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