I have worked for Meyer Corporation for 6 months. As a recent college graduate in my mid 20’s, I am living away from home for the first time. In addition to the start of a new career, I am also a very active athlete, participating competitively in cycling and triathlon events. With so much going on in my life, I find that I fall into multiple Cooking Personalities. Overall, I find that my core personality is Healthy Habits. As a very active endurance athlete, I need to cook foods that not only taste great, but are healthy and provide all of the nutrients I need to perform well and recover.

My other cooking personalities include Expanding Horizons and Gourmand. Living on my own for the first time, I am working slowly to build my own cookware and bakeware assortments. I am very picky when it comes to cooking and baking, preferring only to use the best, which can be an expensive habit, and I am therefore, building my assortments one or two pieces at a time.

My significant other and I love to cook and bake. We experiment all of the time, often cooking/baking a recipe to spec. once, and then never cooking it the same again – varying it to add in foods and flavors we think will work well or just experimenting with foods we have never tried before. With there being only two of us in my household, we cook large meals, and do all of our baking on the weekends, and then use the leftovers for lunch, dinner and dessert during the week. Cooking, baking and eating (the food we make) is a large part of our relationship.  It is important to us that we make healthy food, and we try to make it as fun, interesting, and of course, great tasting as it can be!

I have been working in the housewares industry for 19 years, focusing on cookware, cutlery, bakeware and tools for 17 of those years. I am presently the Director of e-business for Meyer Corporation, and have been in this position for 4 years. My past experience has come from the buying side at Macy's and other department stores. I have also managed an outlet store chain focusing in housewares.

I am currently a "Gourmand" but have been in each Cookware Personality category at various stages of my life. I currently cook for two every night. I am not that good at following recipes but tend to start with a recipe and then add different spices and vegetables that suit our likes and dislikes. When eating out if I find a dish I like I will try to make that dish at home. It does not always turn out the same but is always edible, and sometimes better then the restaurant (even if I say so myself).

I am a newbie at Meyer Corporation but I can see why so many people have worked here for years. It’s such a great place to land; why would anyone ever want to leave? I am a culinary writer, having started out way back when, answering mail and testing recipes for Chuck Williams at Williams Sonoma, when it had fewer than a dozen stores. I was lucky enough to produce ten national cooking series for Jacques Pepin, Mollie Katzen and Martin Yan for public television, veered off into the non-profit world of international adoption and parenthood, and just kept cooking.

I am working in the culinary realm once again, enjoying every delicious thought that I try to put into words. My office is adjacent to the warehouse, its sample shelves abounding with product, more cookware than one can imagine. It’s heaven.