When kids who really enjoy your food tell you about it—even after they’ve been out of school for years.
Q. What is the worst part of your job? Doing paperwork and asking parents for lunch money.
Q. What do you consider to be your greatest achievement?Being selected School Nutrition Hero 2014.
Q. If you weren't in foodservice what would you be doing?Teaching.
Q. If you had a time machine what historical event or era would you visit?To know what it was like when my great-grandparents came to this country.
Q. Which talent would you most like to have?To be more artistic.
Q. Which living person do you most admire?There are so many people that I admire, but if I had to pick one, it would be Gay Anderson from Brandon Valley School District in Brandon, S.D.
Q. What would be your dream vacation?I would go to Holland and Germany.
Q. What is your favorite meal?Crab legs, but having the meat taken out for me. I don’t like the work to open them.
Q. If you could eat dinner with anyone living or dead, who would it be?My dad and grandparents, who have passed.
Q. What is your guilty pleasure?Chocolate.
Q. What will people always find in your refrigerator?Milk.
Q. What food fad do you wish had never started?People who think they need to eat gluten-free without being diagnosed.
Q. What activity is at the top of your bucket list?I would love to work with school foodservice on [Native American] reservations.
Q. What is the weirdest food you have ever eaten?Raw oysters.
Q. Are you a morning or evening person?Morning.
Q. What are your words to live by?Things happen for a reason, and you might not understand now, but some day you will.