Jodi, smiling and laughing, while cooking.

Meet Jodi

Jodi Abel is a professional chef, author & team building expert of Lajollacooks4u. Her virtual team-building cooking events are the best to improve employee engagement.

Lajollacooks4u is the culmination of her passion for gourmet food and teaching. It was conceived after she experienced her first cooking class in the home of another self-taught chef in Umbria, Italy – a surprise birthday celebration from her husband, Glenn.

In the two short days she spent there, she was completely transfixed by the warmth and comfort of this intimate Umbrian home. Learning the chef’s family recipes in such a natural hands-on environment heightened her passion for food and cooking more than she would have ever thought possible by simply attending a cooking class.

Jodi’s Experience

A few days later, Jodi was sipping wine in a Roman café when she had an epiphany. She, too, could give people the same home-cooking experience out of her home in La Jolla, California! The stunning Italian-inspired villa she shared with her husband was the perfect location for an intimate, yet elegant, gourmet escape. With the help of her supportive family, Lajollacooks4u opened its doors in 2008. Without a marketing budget, the first couple of years were slow, with reservations slowly trickling in. But as guests left happy, Lajollacooks4u’s five-star ratings and reviews on TripAdvisor grew exponentially, and, suddenly, so did reservations!

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