Katy Aker

chef katy aker

Monroe, Louisiana

About

Born in Monroe Louisiana, Chef Katy Aker has been cooking professionally for over 22 years, and obsessing over the culinary arts since she was a child.

"Other kids were watching Saturday morning cartoons, I was watching Great Chef's of the World on PBS, religiously.

It did something to me, the reverence those chefs had for the craft, the weird ingredients and all the cool equipment and techniques, I was hooked."

After returning from Germany where she lived as a toddler Aker has lived all over the U.S from New Mexico to New Jersey and everywhere in between, before coming back to Louisiana to set roots in 2015.

" I really got the grand tour, we moved just enough that I got to truly experience the cultures & flavors around me, and then it was on to the next, but since I've come home I really have fallen in love with Monroe & with the delta region"

The techniques and flavor profiles she curates tell a tale of that journey.

You would be hard pressed to find someone who will share that knowledge with you so enthusiastically too, as Katy not only loves her craft, but loves to encourage others to learn as much as they can about food.

"It's truly endless, I get learn & teach something every single day, it's what motivates me to kick the covers off in the morning.