Cooking Class Instructors
Barry Carroll began a life-long love of travel, trying new foods and exploring different cultures at the age of six months when her parents brought her back to meet her southern U.S. relatives from her birthplace of Maracaibo, Venezuela. After her grandmothers taught her to make biscuits, flaky pie crusts and a fierce peach cobbler, she expanded her cooking repertoire with her mom’s paella, green chile and other recipes gleaned from growing up in Colorado and taking numerous road trips throughout the southwest. She spent three years after college as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand and naturally continued to enhance her cross-cultural understanding by learning to cook Thai food from the village women with whom she worked. Today, she maintains her cooking and cross-cultural skills by serving as a local coordinator for exchange students on scholarship with the US State Department and hopes to include a few of these students as guest speakers to provide an authentic and indigenous perspective during her cooking class.Troy Heller has more than twenty years of experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry. He has worked in many different styles of restaurants and in many different capacities, including Executive Chef at restaurants in New Orleans, Florida, and Colorado. His passion is cooking for people in small intimate settings. Troy utilizes the freshest ingredients indigenous to the area to enhance his dishes. He strives to make each and every bite enjoyable to the finish. Troy has a strong background in Cajun, Asian, and French styles of cooking.
Barb Lance has been a Personal Chef since 1999, preparing everyday meals for hungry clients in their homes as well as providing dinner parties and catering services. She is a senior member of the United States Personal Chef Association. Her love of cooking has its roots in her mother’s and grandmother’s kitchens where she began learning from them at an early age. In her spare time, Barb loves to cook for relaxation with friends and family.