Elizabeth
Bardsley has been cooking professionally for the past eighteen
years. The ten years before that was spent working part time
for her parents at their restaurants. She was drawn to fine
dining and French cuisine in particular because of such romantic
notions as strawberries in Champagne and asparagus with Hollandaise
and a crème brûlée that jiggles like –
well she can’t say it out loud!
Liz has always loved to cook but doesn’t know if it
was nature or nurture. She descends from foodies. Circa the
early 1900’s her Italian grandfather, Ludovico Minetta
owned a fruit cart in the lower east side of Manhatten. Her
parents owned Italian restaurants in Long Island, New York
and South Florida. She honestly tried to find a different
profession but everything else seemed like work!
After
a carefree college education at Florida State University she
fondly remembers apprenticeships at the City Grill in Atlanta,
L’Orangerie in Los Angeles, Countryside Café
in Woodstock, and the 1848 House in Marietta, Georgia. A stint
at Seven Oaks as Executive Chef lured her to Greenville. Prior
to joining the staff of Northampton Wines she could be found
cooking at Restaurant La Boheme.
Liz enjoys golfing, reading, crocheting one of a kind ski
hats, teaching and periodically writing on the subject of
food and dining culture. She is a member of the Atlanta chapter
of Les Dames d’Escoffier and the Confrérie de
la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs of Greenville, South
Carolina.
10/06/04
Back
to "Meet the Staff"
