When Veronica Eicken was a little girl, instead of watching weekend morning cartoons like all the other kids, she was glued to PBS, enraptured by the culinary creations of Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and Martin Yan. Before she ever hit double digits, she knew she wanted to be a chef.
Sitting in the kitchen of her home in Santa Rosa’s Larkfield neighborhood, the 42-year-old chef described how she’d get dressed up, fill a wine glass with apple juice, a ribbon tied around its stem, and play restaurant, experimenting with whatever she could find in her family’s Sebastopol home.
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