Jessica Theroux
Meet our artist
Lucas Artists Fellow
- Culinary Arts
About
Residency Dates
- October 2005 – August 2006
- December 2009 – January 2010
- January 2014 – January 2014
- November 2016 – November 2016
- December 2016 – March 2017
Region
UK
Jessica Theroux comes from both a culinary and artistic background. Her artistic background involves a year-long photographic residency at the Maine Photographic Workshops, and a degree in Visual Arts from Brown University. On graduating from Brown, Jessica was awarded the Arnold Fellowship to spend a year in Italy documenting culinary traditions through film and photography. She chose to do this by recording the cooking, lives, and stories of elderly women in thirteen of the Italy’s regions.
Jessica earned her culinary degree at The Natural Gourmet in New York City. She has cooked at a number of renowned healing centers, including The Chopra Center and the Kushi Institute for Macrobiotics. Since returning from Italy in the spring of 2005, she has been working as a private chef and culinary instructor. Jessica is excited to share with Montalvo her passion for cooking gourmet meals with locally and sustainably grown produce.
See some of Jessica’s recipes.