Where are you from? Lulea, in the north of Sweden near the finish border. What do you do? I cook and run the Malibu Farm restaurants. Where do you live now and what do you love most about it? Point Dume, Malibu. It's a small rural town with big city sensibilities.
To skip on a farm, bask in the sun, and eat delicious food. I love gardens, home decor, food, farmers markets, farms, forests, hiking, walking, and running. What inspires you? Mother earth. S he sure put on a show this year, after the fires, the blooms, the greens, everything is a painting of total and sheer beauty.
What do you like most about your work? Freedom to be my own boss, the ability to think of new things, and to try to make them possible. Coming up next is the big apple NYC!!! And Zushi Marina in Japan.
Can you tell me a bit about the shift into restaurants? How did the first restaurant come to be? Yes, I started doing cooking classes and backyard dinners out of my house in Malibu, a hobby that took over my life. The classes and dinners pretty much became an underground, non-permitted restaurant, obviously not allowed in a residential neighborhood. I began to take the dinners on the road to other farms and ranches around Malibu but quickly ran out of locations.
After my husband John read an article about the vacancies on the pier, I reached out to the Malibu Pier about the possibility of holding a one night dinner event there. This lead to a short time pop-up lease that grew into a long term lease including both restaurants on the pier.
