While this website is new for me, my passion for travel, food and people is as old as I can remember. I have had wonderful experiences of being around my grandparents, Milton and Alma Foell while they prepared food and I watched with amazement. They were in the food industry in Cincinnati, Ohio with restaurants, catering and food management at several locations. This wonderful talent was passed to my mom who was able to take care of six children’s nutritional needs with fantastic tastes and aromas.

My desire for most of my early days after college was to be in the food business and be the best chef anyone has ever known. Sadly back in the 70’s, someone managing a kitchen earned just a little more than the lead cook but kept longer hours.

A friend of mine suggested I get into the Oil and Gas business and after my first paycheck, I never looked back. Food, from then on was my hobby.

My beautiful wife owned a catering business (Kings Feast) for about 20 years which gave me the opportunity to hone my cooking and presentation skills. When preparing for 300 to 600 people, you learn quickly how to develop menus, shopping lists and know how much food is needed to satisfy your guests. And if that was not enough, we competed in bar-be-que competitions and other cooking competitions on the weekends.

While I was not cooking for Kings Feast, I traveled the world for my company and enjoyed many new food experiences and developed friendships which have lasted even today. Living in England for a couple of years was quite the eye-opener for my culinary curiosity as well. 

Today, we still travel and I have added to my resume, “Chuck Wagon Cook” for Wagon 6 of the Salt Grass Trail Ride. It is a monumental effort to feed 40 to 50 people three hot meals a day and move camp every day to a new location for seven days straight. And I love every minute.

We appreciate you sticking around long enough to read all this and hopefully my ramblings will provide interesting recipes, let you meet new people, and hear my opinion on restaurants.  Thank you for being a part of this community.