It's often in tragedy that we find our truest selves. And, that was where our conversation started with DC-based chef and restauranteur Emily Baran. In losing her brother only a few years into "real life," she was catapulted into a three-year journey to answer the calling to create community and belonging through food.
Emily said good bye to the predictability of a stable government job, and instead pursued a career in food - one restaurant and one stepping stone at a time, until she would ultimately open NW-DC community staple, Moreland's Tavern.
Emily is an owner who is still working the line; she never expects more of her staff than what herself is willing to give. She took care of her family - at home and at work - during a pandemic that wrecked an entire industry.
She is a mom who has morning "chats" with her seven-year-old son, and is a boss that spends late nights running a kitchen, a restaurant and community hub that's the lifeblood of her NW DC neighborhood.
Emily shook her head when I asked her to be on the show, asking, "are you sure?" By the end, I think we were both nodding, "yeah, I'm sure."
Enjoy this brilliant chef, woman, mother, leader, and human.
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