Dani Nordin, founder/head chef
Dani Nordin is the founder and principal designer of the zen kitchen (not to mention the one that does most of the cooking). She has over 10 years of experience designing award-winning work for small to large businesses and non-profits. In her life before the zen kitchen, Dani did stints as an admin assistant (with a penchant for MS Access), freelance designer, prepress operator, copy shop supervisor, and three summers going door to door for Clean Water Action, where she honed her ability to communicate important issues and inspire others to act on them.
Her work has appeared in such publications as Rockport’s LogoLounge III and The Big Book of Green Design (now out from Crescent Hill Books), and she’s been quoted in articles in HOW Magazine, CNN Living and others. She is also an accomplished writer and public speaker on the subjects of social media, green business, and design. You can read her musings on entrepreneurship and work/life balance (almost) weekly on the DWC Dish.
In addition to training to be a Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher, Dani also occasionally spends time as a tradeshow booth babe, karaoke diva, gardener, urban homesteader, aspiring poet/novelist, amateur chef and avid reader. Currently, she's in love with the work of Jhumpa Lahiri and is attempting (unsuccessfully) to complete a novel.
Lentil Shephard's Pie and Mulligitawny Soup.
In a former life, Dani was also an actress and performance poet.
