User:Chef Lena L Price

Chef Lena L. Price enjoyed cooking even before she realized it. At the tender young age of 7, Lena was often times left in charge of her younger siblings and was tasked to prepare dinner for them. It was those moments that the spark was ignited but lay dormant for some years.

After high school, Lena went into the United States Air Force, where she was afforded the opportunity to travel the world. Her love for traveling continued over many years even after her 10 year Air Force career. Along the way, she adopted the ideology that "Food is Culture" and began immersing herself in the many cultures of the countries that she visited to include Spain, Italy, Bahamas, France, Korea, Panama, Ireland, Filipines, Japan, Costa Rica, Mexico, Germany and many, many, many others.

Lena began to take her craft seriously in 2008, when she decided to attend Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. It's there that she "fine tuned" her skills by learning proper techniques, terminologies and the overall science of foods and flavors. Chef Lena graduated Cum Laude in November 2009. She was described by some of the toughest instructors as "methodical, detail oriented and remains calm in high pressure situations. Her demeanor is pleasant and professional. She's focused and efficient with an excellent sense of urgency."

Chef Lena went on to form Two Gourmet Girls, LLC a private chef and catering company providing cuisine for high end clients and events throughout the metropolitan Atlanta area. She also began to participate in local culinary competitions and walked away the winner November and December 2011.

Chef Lena has always had a passion for preparing, consuming and working with seafood dishes of all kinds. Along with a drive for entrepreneurship, what better notion than to merge the two concepts into Seafoodgasm, LLC. A privately owned seafood truck business that she and her business partner are in the process of putting on the streets in a city near you, be on the lookout!

Chef Lena joined this season of Food Network's The Great Food Truck Race to air on August 27, 2012 with celebrity host Tyler Florence. Chef Lena's team is Coast of Atlanta who was elimination number 4 on the show. See Coast of Atlanta Food Truck.