Role
I am the Abbey Cook, and have been in this role for over 16 years now. Being in the Abbey Kitchen with a great mix of people, all chatting away happily, while bread is baking in the ovens, soup cooking on the stove and dinner vegetables are chopped at the big table is one of my favourite things!
Biography
I am originally from Eastern Germany, having visited Iona the first time just after the wall had fallen, in 1990. Of course, I fell in love with the place and its people, and returned many times as a back packer before volunteering at the Iona Community’s Coffee House in 1999.
I never really left after this – changing my career from banking to cooking, getting married, having a lovely daughter, joining my husband in building up his boat hire business (that business degree wasn’t in vain after all), establishing a garden behind our house in the village, joining the Village Hall Committee, discovering my love for weaving and continuing to take lots and lots of photographs.
I love to be out and about, you will see me hiking or running, or as of last year, wild swimming.
What moves me at the deepest level is the joy of having family and/or friends all around a large table, enjoying food, drink and conversation.
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