Kevin Futamachi

Howdy!  I’m Kevin and I’m so happy that you came to visit with me.  My culinary career started out in the kitchen with my mom and grandma.   One of my fondest memories was when my mom used to make cream puffs, I loved the eggy and doughy aroma wafting from the kitchen and always looked forward to dessert.  Part of the deal was that my brother and I had to whip the cream for the puffs, unfortunately we didn’t have an electric mixer, we had those hand crank ones…yeah, the kind you find in antique shops these days.  So there I was standing on a stool so I could reach the counter, whipping away so I could earn my treat.  I think that’s why the hot cream puff shell right out of the oven became my favorite thing, lol.

 

I enjoyed the process and wanted to keep creating, so one Christmas I asked Santa for an Easy Bake Oven.  I think he knew that he would benefit from the cookies as much as I would!

 

Eventually I got my first baking cookbook, Baking with Master Chefs by Julia Child and I baked along with the PBS series throughout high school and knew that culinary school was in my future.  

 

After graduating Reno High School I attended the University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College but decided that I wanted to take the leap and go to culinary school.  I moved to New York City and attended The French Culinary Institute and graduated in 2004.  After that I returned to Reno and finished my college studies and ended up with an associates degree in Anthropology and an associates degree in General Studies all while honing my baking skills.

 

After 20 years in the culinary world it’s safe to say that I made the right decision to follow my dream!