Welcome

Welcome to the Clean Plate Club ! I've recently moved to the Bay Area after living abroad in Sydney, Australia for the past two and half years. It's hard to believe that my time in Sydney is now a memory of the past. Australia is such an amazing country and Sydney is an unbelievable city.

Now it's time to start this new chapter of my life and The Clean Plate Club will be my guide. Food and travel have always been passions of mine. While I was cleaning out my old room at my parents house I came across one of my many travel journals from when I was 10 years old. It was my first trip to Europe and our destination was Italy. Reading back the entries 16 years later I found myself describing what we ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner in great detail. I even wrote about what we ate on the plane ! Finding this old travel journal inspired me to start The Clean Plate Club - the expression I have grown so fond of over the years. Albeit, as a child I sometimes despised the term when I was being forced to finish my plate of broccoli but now I adore the phrase and simply cannot leave the table until the plate has been wiped clean (thank you mom).

Having just moved back to the Bay Area after living elsewhere (Arizona for school, Newport Beach post-college and most recently Sydney, Australia) I am so excited to explore the city I have always called home with new eyes and a fresh palette. So much of the culinary world has changed and evolved since moving away but at the same time so much has stayed the same. So please join me on my culinary journey one plate at a time. I'll be dining out, eating in, cooking myself and attempting to feed my inner travel bug that always seems to be hungry. And of course, no one is allowed to leave my table until they've joined The Clean Plate Club.