👩‍🍳 Meet the Chef

My name is Lena Moore, and I’m 38 years old. If you ask me when I became a chef, I couldn’t give you an exact year. It wasn’t a grand epiphany. It was more like a slow unfolding like bread rising quietly on the counter while life kept happening around it.
I was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, the oldest of four in a house that always felt warm even in the middle of hard times. My mama worked two jobs, and my daddy was in and out of the picture, but every Sunday, without fail, we sat down to a meal that tasted like forgiveness. That’s where I learned what food could be: not just nourishment, but comfort. Memory. A way of holding on.