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Stories with a Sunday Roast with Linda Bonney and Melissa Bottorff-Arey

An Executive Chef and An Old-Fashioned Kitchen Stool

with Melissa Bottorff-Arey

Season One
Episode Twenty-Five

"It all centred around food. Maybe that's why that particular position fed my soul. I got to do what I love, which is make really nice high end food, take care of people and bring them together. Still to this day, I find nothing more powerful than putting people around a table and letting them just have conversation”.

Stories With a Sunday Roast
Melissa Bottorff-Arey
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Episode Summary

Being in the kitchen and having a love for food was fostered in today’s podcast guest, Melissa Bottorff-Arey, from a very young age. She joins Linda and shares her story of becoming an executive chef and what growing up in the kitchen looked like for her. Listen as they talk about:

  • Learning to cook from a metal stool at her grandmother’s apron strings
  • Steering away from the food industry during college but eventually finding her way back
  • Being an executive chef for the BNSF railway and the unique opportunities she got to experience
  • The differences in her grandparents’ home, but receiving the love of cooking and food from both sides

Melissa shares her version of a Sunday roast memory as a child and as an adult. Even though it may look a little different as an adult than it did as a child, carrying on the tradition holds a special place in her heart.

This episode has now been transformed into a chapter of its very own inside the book series Stories with a Sunday Roast. It weaves together the memories that were shared during the podcast conversations with my personal experiences.

Unlike the podcast, the carefully crafted stories and mouth-watering descriptions of roasty meals will transport you to another level as you turn the pages. To continue with more stories in book format, visit www.lindabonney.com/books for all the details about the Stories with a Sunday Roast series today.

Welcome to the Stories with a Sunday Roast community.

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About Melissa

Melissa Bottorff-Arey is a wife, mother of three, and grandma to four (the last role is her favourite, but don’t tell!) After achieving her dream vocation, this former Executive Chef retired her whisk in favour of working at a more leisurely pace of 24/7 as an author, advocate & dedicated entrepreneur. Less of a choice, and more of a calling, these roles came about after the unexpected death of her 21-year old son 
making the choice to put the shattered pieces of her heart back together since, she now helps others do the same. She has even turned her ‘gift of gab’ into a weekly podcast where she has hard, but meaningful conversations with other loss survivors.

Melissa thinks that when you have a passion for what you do, you needn’t force a hobby, but she can be spied growing many plants from the dirt and can even still be found in the kitchen chopping, dicing and sautĂ©eing- just for the sheer love of it!

*This information is as provided dated Sept 2022 and may be outdated.

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Melissa Bottorff-Arey

About Melissa

Melissa Bottorff-Arey is a wife, mother of three, and grandma to four (the last role is her favourite, but don’t tell!) After achieving her dream vocation, this former Executive Chef retired her whisk in favour of working at a more leisurely pace of 24/7 as an author, advocate & dedicated entrepreneur. Less of a choice, and more of a calling, these roles came about after the unexpected death of her 21-year old son 
making the choice to put the shattered pieces of her heart back together since, she now helps others do the same. She has even turned her ‘gift of gab’ into a weekly podcast where she has hard, but meaningful conversations with other loss survivors.

Melissa thinks that when you have a passion for what you do, you needn’t force a hobby, but she can be spied growing many plants from the dirt and can even still be found in the kitchen chopping, dicing and sautĂ©eing- just for the sheer love of it!

*This information is as provided dated Sept 2022 and may be outdated.

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