In 2021, Tasha entered an international contest for Les vergers Boiron and was one of eight winning chefs for her  Deconstructed Pavlova with Passionfruit cream recipe decorated with edible gold and edible flowers and served with passion fruit sorbet and a crumble.

Tasha Powell says she reinvented herself after a corporate career in product development for sporting goods. That might not be entirely accurate. It could be that Tasha is finally allowing her Francophile foodie to rule the day. From Allentown, Pennsylvania and Penn State University to living in Provence while she finished her Cordon Bleu certification, the gap somehow did not seem that wide once Tasha explained.

As Eleanor Roosevelt famously said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” For us, that “thing” was getting people to pay us to pick our olives. They said it couldn’t be done. They unkindly said, “What you’re doing is a scam.”