Journeyman is a pretty small group, assembled by friendship and luck more than the traditional methods. Below is a tiny bit about where a few of us came from; just enough to whet your appetite, we hope.
Diana Kudajarova
Chef and Co-Owner
Diana has spent most of her adult life researching Soviet history and professional education policies in today’s Russia. She wrote her dissertation on the Soviet engineering profession – which required her to spend a winter in Siberia – and spent a happy academic year working for a Russian think tank. She loves baking sourdough bread, making vinegar, taking care of plants, and, oddly, cleaning fish. She can eat two pounds of strawberries in one sitting.
Tse Wei Lim
Chef and Co-Owner
Tse Wei grew up in Singapore. He has at various times been a civil servant, lighting designer, brand planner, and technology consultant. He is a huge dork who enjoys role-playing games, historical war games, and wrote his honors thesis on comics. He suspects you will find Wikipedia’s entry on Singapore illuminating.
Meg Grady-Troia
Manager and Co-Owner
Meg has spent her working life as a management consultant, personal concierge, software tester, teacher, writer, and corporate librarian. She has also run away to join a circus, run rogue from a PhD program in anthropology, and won an international origami championship.
Len Rothenberg
Patron Saint
For the last 25 years, Len has been the owner and instantly recognizable face of Federal Wine & Spirits, a wine store of repute located in a characterful basement in Boston’s Financial District. Prior to that, Len was the manager at a number of restaurants and bars in Cambridge, including the Blue Parrot in Harvard Square, and a fixture on the precursor to what kids these days would call the Indie music scene.
Dan Hanken, Jared Rudnick, Quentin Lefers, Bradford Yates, Andrea Hasselbacher, Joshua Kampa, and Catherine Owens would rather their checkered pasts not be made public.
