I got my start in food service as far back as 2nd grade when my Grandma would sneak me into work on my days off of school, I’d scoop ice cream and cottage cheese for the residents. That number will always stick in my head as Grandma had repeated it so many times in my life. She worked there until she was 77, wow can you imagine?! Grandma Mary was first generation Slovak American born here in 1920.
She made it through the death of her mother at age 9, the depression-where she learned you had to be resourceful and creative and the war where she was a member of the USO. I thank God every day that she got to be MY Grandma. She taught me how to bake and cook everything from scratch and made it so fun to learn that I don't even think I knew I was actually learning a life skill. This skill would become my passion and happiness. For some reason I have always emulated my Grandma’s 1940’s style, class, and morals. Her pictures were so beautiful, so vintage with the airbrushed colored photos, the form fitting clothes, the perfectly curled and pinned hair. I always wished I could have lived in that era. Now I can, I can go back in time with my restaurant/food truck and make it what I want it to be. No boundaries because like back in the depression you made do with what you could find and you made it taste good. That's my promise, to make great food that will take you back to when you would visit Grandma…comfort food for the soul ;)
I started taking on small catering jobs in 1994, which included birthdays, baptisms, and graduations. While taking on jobs at local taverns as a short order cook. Eventually I moved forward to fine dining, assisted living, bakery manager, and working for bigger caterers. I eventually went on to get my Culinary degree, Bakers certificate, Short Order Grill certificate, as well as Serv-Safe certified. During school I was the cake manager for Dairy Queen and decorated on average 30 cakes a day. After Culinary school my family and I moved to Tennessee where I was a rotisserie chef for the Bald Headed Bistro and then was hired with Goetz Catering as a Sous Chef. One of my most exciting moments was catering the movie premiere for Water for Elephants in Chattanooga. There were also many southern weddings in the mountains, and served on the Volkswagen account. Unfortunately, my life drastically changed when my husband, Greg was diagnosed with cancer. We moved back home to Minneapolis to be with family and a much needed support system. Having taken 2 years off after my husband lost his battle with cancer I am now ready to get back to work. My most recent catering job was for a group of 400 women for an event at St. John the Baptist. It was exhilarating to get my feet wet again! So here I am! putting myself back out there ready to go, ready to be successful, and ready to be my own boss. I want to thank you now for joining me as I move forward in either obtaining a food truck or going brick and mortar right off the bat. My mission is to eventually become a non-profit organization to help families with children under 18 that are dealing with cancer or other illness or injury. Things that were impossible for our family to obtain while Greg was sick made me realize if it's not there for us, it's not there for anyone. We moved away from family to Tennessee, how were we going to get back to family? There weren't funds, we had to borrow. I want to provide grants to relocate families that need it. We lived outside of the meal delivery service area that helps take the burden off when you are running back and forth to appointments. I want to provide a rural food service for families outside of the metro and expand it. Greg got sick so fast that child care took a few days to get in line. I want to get families from churches involved in emergency care for these situations. I have a dream, a vision, and a mission to achieve these goals. With all of you this will happen. Thank you,
Genevieve
P.S. If you’re wondering how we got the name here's how it goes. I was talking to my Mom telling her I really needed a name and it had to be different but catchy. So while driving around together we're rattling things off and I said “how about something like what you say in the kitchen all the time” You know Mom, like when you say “Here! try this" and she goes “that's it! That's the name!” Everyone in my family that is cooking in the kitchen will grab someone and say "Here! try this" So there you go, that's how it started and then the vision of the domestic goddess poster with the big message came to mind and it just keeps going from there. I can see the food truck now, rolling down the road like a moving 1940's kitchen with a real domestic goddess behind the wheel!
