Lauren has always been a die-hard foodie. As a sixth-generation Texan, Lauren grew up on good ol' southern cooking with both of her grandmothers, where the passion for food sparked an absolute LOVE for cooking.

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Lauren has a Bachelors degree in Business Marketing and a "minor" in snowboarding from Colorado State University. After college, Lauren worked in insurance sales, real estate marketing, graphic design, and then as the VP of Marketing for a brand new pharmaceutical dispensing company out of Chicago. After 2 labor-intensive years of learning every aspect of marketing a pharmaceutical business, endless concerts and fine dining, Lauren left cloudy ChiLand for sunny, South Florida.

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Once there, persuasion from her grandmother, led Lauren to enroll and graduate with an Associates in Culinary Arts degree from Keiser University. Culinary degree in-hand, Lauren went on to work hot line, pantry, sandwiches, deli, customer service, and catering jobs at both high-end resorts and gourmet markets.

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After 5 years in always-summer Florida, Lauren returned to her "happy place": Vail, Colorado where she enjoys snowboarding, camping, white water rafting, & all sorts of other mountain town adventures.

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Lauren loves creating new dishes and changing up the common comfort foods she grew up on by adding her personal twist. A fusion of old school comfort food recipes with innovative seasonings and fresh ingredients, mixed with a little Southern flare.

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In the summer of 2014, Lauren started her own catering company, NewAmericanFoods.com based out of a shared location in Minturn, CO. Since then, she has moved into her current location at the NE corner of Edwards Riverwalk (between Lacy's & the Bookworm), where Lauren's Kitchen was born in October of 2018. 

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