Our Head Chef, Gwen Kenneally, has loved food since she was a small child in Petaluma, California.  She grew up cooking with her extended family and began cooking seriously when she discovered the unifying effect of good food--in the idea, the shopping, the cooking and the eating--in her own family.

As Gwen experimented and people raved, she began to collect and develop recipes that she began to prepare professionally in the Los Angeles Catering scene.  As a single mother, Gwen found ways of adapting her recipes to allow busy families to eat great food without spending the day slaving in the kitchen.  Eventually, her work was discovered by the Sun Community newspapers of the San Fernando Valley, in which she has a weekly cooking column.

Chef Gwen founded Back to the Kitchen in 2005 as a caterer and party planning service, after having spend over 10 years cooking for some of L.A.'s hottest caterers.  She has cooked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, among many others, and is constantly creating new recipes for herself and her clients.

  Over the last three years, Back to the Kitchen has cooked for presidents, Hollywood executives, and has coordinated exciting events including weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs, and many special occasions such as the wrap party for the TV show Six Feet Under at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary. 

Contact us today and find out how you can be a guest at your own party!

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