From NYC to Birmingham

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story can make all the difference.

My wife and I have spent 15 years in New York. We met in culinary school right out of high school, and we have been together ever since. We have had an amazing ride, traveling the world and getting to know our global neighbors. Food excites us. It makes us get up in the morning and smell the roses.

We bought a home in Birmingham, Alabama, next door to my sister, site unseen. When we moved from New York to Hoover, it was the first time we had even seen the house, but everything about it felt right! We have a 23-month-old son who’s turning 2 on Aug 21, and it was important to my wife and I that he grow up with and be close to his cousins.

As we were getting settled in someone said we should do a supper club and it just stuck in my mind. Eventually I succumbed to the draw of it, and we then plunged ourselves into getting everything ready for our first event. We didn’t know what the demand would look like; we didn’t know what we were going to cook—and we didn’t know how to get the word out! We plugged away one step at a time…finding plates, silverware, and glasses. I redid our deck in the backyard with my literal saint of a brother-in-law, Denton Fromme. We decided to build a table on the backyard deck that would seat 20 people.

At this point we are 100% in a Kevin Costner moment in field of dreams: If you build it they will come! Here we are two days away from our first attempt at our Tasting TBL experiential supper club, with every detail running through our minds and emotions pumping through our veins, we are hoping for the best and excited about the future…