No Olives grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and has lived in Chicago for four years. During the day, she works as an attorney, but requests that you don't hold that against her. Her love for all things culinary has been influenced by her life's curve: parents and childhood, traveling, relationships and accompanying pain/joy, celebration, creativity, and the sheer joy of dancing in the kitchen to great music, drinking a glass of wine and dirtying up a cookbook.