Over the past few months, La Colombe Coffee Roasters commissioned me to develop a series of blog articles about influential chefs who are shaping the future of the restaurant industry. This excerpt comes from the first of those articles - stay tuned for more inspiring stories!

"Innovative. Ambitious. Genre-defying. As the former Pastry Chef and current Executive Chef at Aquavit in New York City, Emma Bengtsson has earned all these adjectives and more. Yet rather than a dominant, aggressive personality, it’s her calm, centered persistence that has earned her a spot at the top of the culinary food chain."