Title: Founder.
Location: Spokane, Washington, wintering in California.
Expertise: With over 25+ years of experience in the food industry, Sylvia is a professional chef and co-founder of Mizuna Restaurant and Feast Catering Co. She is the author, recipe developer, and photographer of Feasting at Home, which began in 2011.
Cuisines: Middle Eastern cuisine, Mediterranean food, Farm-to-Table, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Indian, Mexican, Italian, and American, + recipes from travels around the globe.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing from CSUN, Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Gonzaga University.
About Sylvia Fountaine
Creator of Feasting at Home– writer, photographer, and recipe developer since 2011.
In 1996, I left my counseling career to open a vegetarian restaurant with my high school friend, Tonia, in downtown Spokane. It was exciting and difficult, but I was young and up for the challenges!
Ten years later, I sold the restaurant to a long-time employee and took a year off to travel. I missed cooking! I started a catering business called Feast in 2008, which I ran for another 10 years. In 2018, I closed down the catering business to run Feasting at Home full time.
The Feasting at Home blog was launched in 2011 as a way to share my catering recipes, and since then, it has grown into a global recipe site with over 1,400 restaurant-quality recipes and millions of visitors each month! I am forever grateful to my friend Sara Greene for encouraging me to start the blog. It truly changed my life.
Fun Facts
- I’m half Finnish and half Egyptian, born and raised in Los Angeles, to immigrant parents who loved to cook. They taught me how to turn humble ingredients into a feast.
- I’m married to Brian Fountaine and have a fluffy white husky named Lumi (which means “snow” in Finnish), and I have never had kids. Just pets. 😉
- The building behind me is where Mizuna Restaurant resides in downtown Spokane. Tonia and I started this in 1996, and it still exists today! It has a vegetarian menu option.
- My favorite food is my mother’s tabouli and my father’s lentil soup.
- I love to garden! Flowers, veggies, and of course lots of herbs!
- My favorite recipes on the website are: Tabouli, Baba Ganoush, Lentil Soup, Easy Pad Thai, Moussaka, and Ice cream.
- Read more in our about section.
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