Fencing? Cookies? Whats the connection?

You have been reading this blog for a while and you know that wheeling chef was started at a time when I needed cash to cover the entry fee for a tournament.  Once I made that goal I decided I needed a new Epee and I made that goal too. Now It seems that wheeling chef can do more for me then just help fund my fencing habit.
It's my business.

Several people have asked me just how I got into fencing and how selling cookies relates to it. Well here it goes. I had just moved to Atlanta and was watching Murderball for the 200th time and decided to see if there was a team in Atlanta that I could go watch. I searched the internet and found the Shepherd Center and a listing of what sports programs they offered, they had the usual, wheelchair basketball, road racing, murder-ball etc but they also had fencing, I was intrigued, perhaps the idea intrigued  my inner pirate! So I emailed the the team captain and thus my fencing adventure started, once I got involved with the sport I started working out and drilling every day. In May my first tournament came up and I realized the competitions had a price tag attached, a rather high one when your on a limited income. So I decided to resurrect an old idea.

I graduated from  The Florida Culinary Institute in 2009 with a Bachelors degree in Culinary/Hospitality Management. The job market was less then welcoming so I decided that I had to do something, if nothing else to avoid boredom. So I started baking shortbread cookies and making toffee, I had some success but it wasn't the grand-slam I had hoped for. I shut down the cookie business for a bit while I dealt with some personal issues. Eventually I found myself in Atlanta on a fencing team and in need of supplemental funding, so in August 2010 I relaunched  wheelingchef.com, dusted off my twitter account and started selling cookies. Now here it is January 2011 and what started as a way to help offset fencing costs and what I called an experiment is turning out to be something I can sink my teeth into and build into something. All of this is happening so fast, and I couldn't have done any of this without the support my friends and family have given me. I've said it time and time again, but thank you all for helping me turn my dream into reality