A historian, scholar, recovering attorney, magazine editor, dedicated self-taught cook, and cultured, sophisticated man about town, I got my chance to turn pro in 1995.

After years in some of the area’s finest kitchens, I traded restaurant life for ten happy years as a full-time stay-at-home dad and part-time caterer.

I later returned to the workforce, teaching at the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute and running the culinary program at Cardinal O’Hara High School. Now I’m retired.

Which gives me even more time to think about food.