Founder and chef of Cafe Pasqual's in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally from Northern California, she studied Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiian cookery before opening Cafe Pasqual's in 1979. She helped to found the international association of prepared and perishable food rescue programs, Foodchain, as well as Santa Fe's local program, The Food Brigade, an all-volunteer organisation that picks up excess foods from grocers and restaurants and delivers them to Santa Fe's feeding programs and shelters.