Born in Cincinnati, Kristen is a graduate from The Midwest Culinary Institute. She has a diverse background in food based job experiences: Trader Joe's (Manhattan and Cincinnati), Take the Cake and Nectar Restaurant (Cincinnati). Kristen served as the Educational Culinary Director at Gabriel's Place, a garden to table food education non profit located in one of Cincinnati's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. She also has a background in Theater Arts where she developed a great interest in communicating ideas to diverse groups of people.
Kristen focuses her abilities on food education with a community based approach. Shrinking the gap between finding locally grown food and forming those ingredients into a nutritional meal is what she strives to accomplish. Kristen emphasizes in her teaching, ways to reconnect a community, food heritage and cooking as a therapeutic art form. She believes utilizing cooking as a stress free tool encourages the ability to grow, heal, and smile more.
About In the Field
In the Field LLC was formed on April 18th 2016 by Kristen St. Clair. This initiative is focused on a creative and experiential "hands on" culinary education. It is Kristen's hope to expand this venture to include many tactile based arts: fine arts, gardening, pottery, theatrical arts, vocational educational initiatives.
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