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Cooking with Leif (2007-2009)
-Organizer and Chef
-a series of monthly underground restaurants in the Bay Area
-generally 5-course vegetarian dinners featuring organic farms and musicians

The Secret Cafe (2004-2008)
-Chef
-3-course vegetarian, organic monthly secret restaurant in Berkeley
-began in Olympia, WA in the nineties

Noise in My Kitchen
-Chef
-A monthly event in an apartment in the Mission District

Triple Base Gallery dinner lecture series
-Guest Chef

Slow Dinners
-in collaboration with Slow Food, Slow Food Nation, and various NGOs
-Benefit Slow Dinner with The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (8/28/08)
-Benefit Slow Dinner with The San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance (9/1/08)

Outerlands Restaurant
-Chef consultant

Freelance Catering and Personal Chef Services, Bay Area (1999-2009)

Olive Green Catering (2008-2009)
-catering cook

Living Room Events, SF (2007-2009)
-catering cook

Back To Earth Catering, Emeryville (2008)
-catering cook

Work of Art Catering, SF (2007/2008)
-catering cook

Blossom Bluff Orchards (2006-2008)
-Farmers Market Worker
-Premium stone fruit sales at farmers markets across the bay, particularly at the Ferry
Building, SF

Greens Restaurant, SF (2006/2007)
-Dinner Cook
-Vegetarian Fine Dining
-trained in all stations
-usually worked saute

SOOP, Berkeley (2006)
-artisanal soup maker
-on team that opened the business

Cafe Gratitude, SF (2005)
-line cook and production
-vegan, organic, and raw cuisine

Citron, Oakland (2004/2005)
-garde manger
-market-driven French/California cuisine

Kyoto Sushi, Delray Beach, Fl (2004)
-line cook, all positions, hot kitchen

Imprevist, Barcelona, Spain (2003/2004)
-Executive Chef
-seasonal market-driven contemporary cuisine

Amaltea, Slokai, Invisible, Silenus, Umita
Barcelona, Spain (2002/2003)
-Temp and fill-in cook, catering gigs
-variety of styles: contemporary Catalan, vegetarian, fusion, Japanese

East Coast West, SF (2002)
-line cook
-NY deli-style restaurant

Organic Cafe, Oakland (2000-2002)
-Dinner Chef
-menu changed daily, vegan/organic cuisine