Home Cooking Personal Chef Service
In 1998, Carlin Breinig left the high stress world of project management in a telecommunications company without knowing what she was going to do. She liked project management with the need for details and organization, but was starting to think she wanted a weekend without emergency pages and nights where she slept and didn’t chat with co-workers at 2 a.m.
Carlin decided to review some other options and thought she’d try personal cheffing. She started Home Cooking Personal Chef Service in 1998 cooking for singles, couples and families that needed some help getting delicious, healthy meals on the table. Carlin loves the personal relationship she has with her customers and has the best job ever.
In addition to her new career Carlin became a docent at The Atlanta Botanical Garden and gave tours to many groups of children. Carlin also did a couple cooking demos in the children’s garden and loved cooking with children.
In 1999 while taking a cooking class at The Cook’s Warehouse in Atlanta, www.cookswarehouse.com, Carlin asked if they offered children’s classes. The owner replied that they would like to but couldn’t find anyone to teach them and would Carlin like to teach. Since then, Carlin has been a teaching chef at The Cook’s Warehouse specializing in classes for kids and teens from ages 3 to 17.
In addition to monthly cooking classes she does week long summer cooking programs, cake decorating and cupcake decorating with the kids.
Carlin is a Certified Personal Chef, a member of The Personal Chefs Cooperative, a member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs (www.womenchefs.org) and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (www.iacp.com).
In June of 2010, Carlin traveled to Washington D.C. to join the Chefs Move to Schools initiative (www.letsmove.gov/action.php). Carlin is now paired with Autrey Mill Middle School and will be working with the principal, teachers and children in science classes, language classes, lunch and learns for parents. Carlin is also starting an after school culinary club where teachers and students will learn about healthy cooking, delicious cooking, new foods, and who knows what else.
