Employee Learning Week
Special General Meeting Event
Join your fellow ATD Houston members and guests during Employee Learning Week, where we become learners, participating in a cooking class where we create and enjoy a meal together. "Groups that have fun together, will work better together!
This experiential event will be held at the Sparrow Bar + Cookshop, a farm to table space in Houston, Texas, that specializes in global cuisine while sourcing local ingredients. The seasonal menu includes nibbles such as cheese, charcuterie & nuts from Houston Dairymaids.
Monica Pope herself will lead us as we enjoy creating a wonderful meal together, learning and enjoying each other's company.
If you wish, you may bring your own beverage, including adult beverages. Still and sparkling water will be provided.
Space is limited, so reserve your space now!
ATD Competency Model - Area of Expertise This Session Supports: Performance Improvement, Training Delivery
ABOUT MONICA POPE
Dubbed the "Alice Waters of the Third Coast," German-born, Texas-reared chef Monica Pope has been revolutionizing Houston's culinary scene since she debuted her first restaurant in 1992. Pope shares her passion for connecting local farmers and consumers with cooking classes, an online cookbook Eat Where Your Food Lives, plus Sparrow Bar + Cookshop and Beaver's restaurants. Pope has enjoyed national recognition in the form of a James Beard award nomination and a spot competing on the 2010 second season of Top Chef Masters on Bravo. She is the only female Texas chef to be named Best New Chef by Food & Wine magazine thanks to her inventive, "eat where your food lives" cooking style.
Hailed by Travel & Leisure magazine as "one of the most ingenious restaurateurs around," Pope first learned to cook from her Czech grandmother and went on to earn her Chef's title from Prue Leith's School of Food and Wine in London. After working in Europe and San Francisco, she returned home to Houston to open the Quilted Toque, which was followed by a succession of acclaimed restaurants, including Boulevard Bistrot and t'afia. Pope is the founding chair of Recipe for Success Foundation's Chefs Advisory Board and current Board Member of the Houston-based non-profit, which is dedicated to fighting childhood obesity. She regularly appears as an RFS media spokesperson and national advocate and was invited as part of an RFS delegation to the White House for the launch of Michelle Obama's Chefs Move to Schools initiative.
