shawn

Name: Shawn

Location: The Jersey Shore

I started to become obsessed with food as an early teenager. Working in restaurants for years and years, as a server, food runner, bartender, and even spent a number of years as a cook. I wouldn’t call it being a chef, more like a line-cook. But in the slower seasons and in the down time, I had all the ingredients of a huge kitchen to develop some sort of personal cooking style and skill.

My love for food and cooking food grew by watching the original dubbed Iron Chef episodes when Food Network was in its early stages. And of course, one of my main inspirations, Jamie Oliver on The Naked Chef. I love to eat and cook almost every style of cuisine. Whether its Asian, Indian, Spanish, French, and so on and so on. I would say my favorite style is barbecue. Nothing is more pleasing to me than a nice day outside with a big charcoal fire, cooking all and any type of food on a nice grill.

I try to live an extremely active and healthy life. Running 5k’s with Veronica, playing as much soccer as I can, playing on three softball teams, hiking, playing volleyball, riding my fixie, or just being outside in any capacity. I love traveling to Europe and hope to make it soon to other continents. I shoot film from old vintage cameras, and find inspiration from the people closest to me.

I survive mostly on a diet of smartwater, cliff bars, and those odwalla naked drinks.

Bottom line is: I love food and trying all and any types of it.