Chef Beth Andresini

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Beth Andresini was born and raised in Towson, Maryland, which is about 20 miles north of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. She lives in the neighborhood where she grew up, is married and has two teenage boys (18 and 15). Beth is also the youngest of five and the only girl – needless to say her mother enjoyed her hanging around the kitchen. She remembers the youth chair in the kitchen under a window where she would sit and watch her mother prepare dinner. Her mother was from the southwest corner of Virginia so a lot of southern cooking went on in that kitchen.

When Beth was nine, she asked her mother if she could make an angel food cake. Her mother was taking a cat nap at the time, so of course her mother said yes. Beth happily separated one dozen eggs – right into a plastic bowl – big mistake. She began whipping and whipping and nothing happened – it got foamy but that was it! Well she figured it would rise in the oven – so she proceeded with the recipe. It grew to about four inches, just a little more than the batter, but it turned a golden brown. After dinner it was dessert time and her mother passed out the pieces. Her mother took a bite, spit it out, and proclaimed it inedible. However, Beth’s father thought it was wonderful and ate the whole thing. It was then that she fell in love with cooking and pleasing people. So unlike the angel food cake, Beth rose to become a cook, a very good cook.

Whether it was a mid-life crisis or the lack of being stimulated, Beth decided to leave the legal field after almost 23 years. The legal field treated her well, but she wanted more. She loved having dinner parties and her family and friends loved her cooking. Whenever someone she knows has a baby, a week’s worth of meals are prepared and delivered daily to the new parents. It was after a January delivery of a friend that she realized this was it – she wanted to cook for people but didn’t know how to go about doing it.

Beth was watching TV and flipped to a show discussing personal cheffing. She watched in amazement and realized this is what she wanted to do. She immediately went on the Internet and ran a search and found Personal Chefs Network, who taught her the ins and outs of the business. That was in mid-January 2002. By March 1, 2002 Thyme for You, LLC was born, and she had her first client lined up. She started taking vacation and personal days off from work to cook for her new clients. By the end of May she realized it just might work, and she set to make a clean break from the legal field on August 31, 2002. 

Beth is currently cooking for 12 people on a regular basis and is marketing herself to expand even further. What she enjoys most though is the new flexibility of her life, and the fact she is actually making money doing what she loves to do – cook and please people.