Mary King

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Location
Norwich, Vermont
School
Colgate University
Expertise
Restaurant Operations, Home Cooking, Restaurant History
  • In 2023, Mary interviewed chef and cookbook author Gesine Bullock-Prado for the launch of her cookbook "My Vermont Table" in Woodstock, Vermont.
  • She managed restaurants for more than 10 years, working with renowned chefs like Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Miliken.
  • Her restaurant insights have been quoted in publications from Food & Wine to the New York Post.

Experience

A veteran restaurant manager and avid home cook, Mary King is obsessed with recreating high-end, high-touch hospitality experiences at home. She has first-hand operational knowledge of food businesses as varied as food trucks, coffee shops, Michelin-starred restaurants, and catering operations. Mary is an avid reader of restaurant social history, chef memoirs, and cookbooks. She also lovingly tends her sourdough starter (named Baba Yaga) from the kitchen of her New England farmhouse.

Education

Mary studied English Literature at Colgate University, where she had a reputation for throwing dinner parties and cooking Thursday Night Dinners with student groups in the shared chapel kitchen.

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