Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Sebasigari.
Jennifer Sebasigari is a professional chef base out of Houston Texas, born on March 3rd, 1989 in Bujumbura, Burundi. At the age of 12, the French native speaking chef and her family moved to the USA. Her first culinary experience was at 10 years old in Langy, Cameroon in a refugee camp, where she prepared a family meal for her parents and siblings of five.
Chef Jenny attended Leander high school where she obtained a high school diploma. In 2014, Jenny did a lot of soul searching. At the age of 25 she decided to take on her culinary skills as a career. Enrolled in the local culinary school where she spent two years working and studying hands on hands with some of the best chefs at Le Cordon Blue College of Culinary Arts Austin, Texas. She enjoyed her experience in culinary school and achieved the dean list form Le Cordon Blue. July 30,2016, Jennifer Sebasigari graduated with an Associate degree in Science of Culinary Arts. February of 2016, chef Jenny relocated to Orlando, Florida where she landed an internship at Walt Disney Park and Resorts in Orlando Florida. She worked at five different restaurants inside the famous parks Including Liberty Tree Traven in Magic Kingdom and Tusker House in Animal Kingdom. In Late 2016, Jennifer returned to Houston Texas where she landed her first job out of college from the number one restaurant in Houston, Texas Oxheart.
Jennifer Sebasigari spent her time at Oxheart working side by side with James Beard Award recipient Justin Yu.Jennifer s establishing her business Jennyonthego365 in Houston, Texas, providing catering services, engaging in pop up restaurants, providing cooking lessons, creating charity events with local and international chefs such as Karen Man, Kelly Helgesen, Chef James Robinson, Chef Gil, Houston Astro Chef Devown Hines and many more. March 2017, Chef Jenny started working for a food truck manufacturing company named Chef Units doing sales and human resource. After years of working in the food truck industry, Jenny decided to create Jennandthejuice in May 2018. Jennandthejuice is juice company based in Houston, Texas that provide cold pressed fruits and vegetable juices that are 100% all natural with no water, sugar, preservatives or spices added. She was inspired to develop her line of five juices by the time she spent working at Oxheart and La Condensa in Austin, Texas.
In 2019 she worked at the Marriott Marquise downtown Houston where she was offered to showcase her cooking on fox 26 a local news outlet. That same year she was offered to bring her talents to the food and wine festival which she was blessed to attract the biggest crowd for her one of a kind taco’s. Also, Jennifer talents got her to bring her culinary flare to “My city my way an Essence festival” recruited by James Roberson of Kitchen Cray. Jennyonthego365 entered in 2020 with working with Fox tv Anchorman with “Brunch Body and Soul.”
Jennifer looks on expanding her brand worldwide and continue growing in experience as 2020 progresses with her unique international cuisines by interviewing culinary legend on her show on IGTV called Behind The Kitchen.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The road to success is never easy! Being an immigrant here in the U.S.A I’m so blessed and thankful to be operate my business here in Houston, Texas. Starting a business is never easy but worthy. Some of the struggles entrepreneur face when starting a business is having working capital and creating systems for your business. As I am growing my business, I’m constantly creating flows and finding ways to obtain working capital for my business to grow.
Please tell us about Jennyonthego365.
Jennyonthego365 is a culinary service where we provide catering services, private chef, food media, and more. We specialize in food media and catering services. Our unique style of food presentation set us apart from everyone else here in Houston, Texas. We’re known for our wonderful plating style and bold colors. What set us apart from the rest is our work ethic, professional service and delicious food.
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
My favorite childhood memory is when my father will get back intown form working overseas he will take us to a 5-star restaurant name Razak In Burundi. The chef/owner will always come to greet my family, that’s where I felt in love with the idea of being a chef.
Pricing:
- Gotze Peelers set $199.00
- Gotze Scissors $129
Contact Info:
- Address: P.O Box
631489
Houston tx 77263 - Website: www.JenniferSebasigari.com
- Phone: 8328440229
- Email: Info@jennifersebasigare.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifersebasigari/?hl=en
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennysebass?lang=en
Image Credit:
@righttimesolutions @l.e.phant.n.the.rm @mp_photography333
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