Damaris Phillips

For a food lover with a big imagination, there's nothing worse than eating the exact same meal several days in a row.

For me, love always means spending time with people. And whenever you spend time with people, you're going to end up getting hungry at some point - so I bring food.

It's always good to update your food. It's always exciting to learn and update new flavor profiles.

My husband is a vegetarian. So it has really pushed me as a chef. Just thinking about the food that I really relied on as my hunny-hunting foods, that looks different with a vegetarian.

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

I was going to be a writer, and that turned into journalist. And then that turned into a career in children's literature, which turned into early childhood education, which turned into psychology, which turned into premed, which turned into nursing school, which turned into communication, which turned into marketing and advertising.