Aloha! It's me, Susanne Daner, founder of Unboxed Gourmet. As a lover of cooking and as an expert menu planner and meal prepper, I started my business because of my desire to do something I enjoy in order to make other people's lives easier. My personal chef services range from providing meals prepared in advance for you to enjoy later to plated dinners served to you and your family. 

I am self-taught, which is why I call myself a "chef-at-heart". My culinary training began with a combination of growing up in a house where Mom always had delicious home-cooked meals on the table as well as watching hours and hours of cooking shows that aired on PBS (we didn't have cable). During my college years, I figured out how to cook on a budget. After that, when I became a wife and a mother who had a full-time office job, I became really good at meal planning. All the while I was spending my free time developing recipes and practicing new culinary skills and methods on my own.