Xanthie Drankus on Clubhouse

Bio

Marketer by trade: Clorox for public spaces. (Getting spaces ready for a post-COVID world)
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Cook, baker, reader, thinker, dinner party-er, erstwhile karaoke enthusiast
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History major who went to culinary school, worked as a chef, then went to business school at ESSEC in Paris. Now splits time between San Francisco & wine country.
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Previous work lives: marketing for fashion, wine, skincare, software
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Food is still my big hobby: recipe development, writing, teaching, cooking, baking.
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Also... rebuilding our rural home that burned in the Nun’s Fire in Sonoma. Trying to build better, sustainably, and in harmony with our environment.
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Interested in:
+all things culinary, wine, spirits
+gardening, beekeeping, farming, and making stuff
+ideas: literature, art, history, film
+modern & sustainable architecture and building
+travel, especially via sailboat
+people
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Languages besides English:
🇬🇷Greek
🇫🇷French (mostly rusty, but restaurant & shopping French strong 💪🏻)
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Have lived in Chicago (where I grew up), Crete (where my family is from), Paris, and now I split my time between a Potrero Hill Victorian in San Francisco & a rural tiny house in Glen Ellen (see “A firefighter rebuilds” episode on Tiny House Nation)
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tastegurus.com for recipes
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IG @tastegurus for food @xanthie for everything else