TASTE TUTOR's STORY

Culinary Consultant || Chef ||  Food Scientist || Garden Enthusiast

Hello Friends!

My name is Adunni and I'm the Taste Tutor!

I'm here to share my love and passion for scrumptious foods, and deliciously strong beverages with you; Along with the knowledge of how to craft such delicacies. I am a Black American & Yoruba girl who spent early childhood in Nigeria, grew up around my Caribbean cousins, and was raised in the Carolinas; talk about intersectionality! I love food, culture, and science, and blending the three to cook the best dishes I know how is my way of expressing love. By the grace of God, I spend my days working as a food scientist for a Seattle based food company and my nights and weekends sharing my love of food with family, friends, and you!

Would you like to learn how to cook delicious, fast, and healthy or indulgent meals?

With Taste Tutor you'll learn cooking techniques and why things work so you can apply them to all your future kitchen adventures. I'll come to you whenever and wherever you need, via text, phone, video chat or in person. We can talk about anything from new ingredients, to what diet you’re following, to what your favorite beverage is. Let me teach you how to build high quality flavors that are customized to your tastes.

Check out what services I have to  offer! Ask me anything and you'll see how good it is to have a chef in your pocket! 

Experience

Ever since I was a little girl, I've loved food and anything having to do with it. I remember being young and helping my paternal grandmother with meals in Nigeria and I would always ask my mommy and maternal aunts if I could help in the kitchen when we moved back to the States. From those experiences, many family recipes and traditions were passed down to me.; luckily I've been writing them down all these years. There's even a paper out there somewhere about the West African Influence on Southern Cuisine that I wrote for my school history thesis. (Dorky or passionate?) My favorite thing as a young teenager was to come up with new recipes using seemingly unrelated ingredients we had in the house while my mother was working. I was blessed enough in high school to be exposed to both the culinary arts and food science. From those experiences I knew I wanted to learn as much as I could about food.

Throughout my life I've learned about what I believe to be the 3 essentials of food:

Culinary Arts [Art & Heritage of Food] || Food Science [The Study of Food before Consumption] || Nutrition [The Study of Food after Consumption]

I am a trained chef with a culinary nutrition degree from Johnson & Wales University as well as an education on West African, Caribbean, and Soul Food from my family.

• Graduated Johnson & Wales University in 2009 with an Associate in Applied Science, Culinary Arts.

• Graduated Johnson & Wales University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science, Culinary Nutrition.

• Since graduating I’ve been working as a Food Scientist for various food companies throughout the United States.

I've also been able to travel to multiple countries to learn about different food traditions. Don't be lame; check out my blog posts! 

Enjoy the site and let's get in touch!

Thanks for reading all these words!

Love ya!

Taste Tutor