I’m a professional Chef and have been same for 14 years. I’ve been very happily married for the last 8 years and we currently reside in the culinary wasteland of the Pacific Northwest (not all of it, mind you). Moving from Southern California to here, although good for job security, was not good for the eating.

We’ve found a few really bright rays of food sunshine, though they’ve been few and far between.

What will this blog be about?  For a start this blog will be about; cooking, eating, the Slow Food Movement, movies, music and television. I’ll talk about cookbooks and recipes, answer questions and ultimately shine a light into the dark recesses of the culinary world and, even worse, of my mind.

I love to cook and with that simple statement sums up most of my life. Even in my earliest days, experimenting with chicken and ramen noodles, at 6 years of age I invented Chicken ala Travis. It was nothing more than a grilled chicken breast on a bed of ramen but for a 6 year old, what more do you want? From studying in Monterey, working for the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena to opening a restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles and everything in between, food and cooking has been a huge part of my life.

So grab your favorite drink, sit back and relax. The journey’s just begun!