About me
Professional Biography
Flannery is co-owner and chef of bigLITTLE Get Together, a culinary creative company based in New York City. The company specializes in private dinners, brand experiences, pop-ups, food styling & consulting. In addition to bigLITTLE, Flannery has been the Executive Chef of Kin Travel for two years, an eco tourism company traveling to places like Haiti & Cape Cod to cook for adventure travel there. Currently, when she is not cooking on her home turf in NYC, she is working on private sailboat charters around the world with Captain Paul Porter or the Sailing Collective as well as preparing food for yoga & healing retreats with Skyting, St. Foxie, & Three Suns. She is a contributing writer to Counter Service Magazine. Flannery is a Chopped Champion and the 2017 National Copa Jerez Champion. She took home the award for “most creative” while representing the United States at the international Copa Jerez competition in Spain.
Make it stand out.
In the beginning there was chaos. This chaos was energy that begged to be harnessed. And so it was so. Energy organized itself into life, into a single cell, whose inner mechanics were a mirror image of the outer workings of the universe. The cell grew, and evolved, and eventually everything on this planet was derived from this one cell. The world was grown in the likeness of the cell and what was outside was a reflection of the working systems on the inside. Every component of life on this planet had its place in the puzzle. Without one piece the entirety would fall apart. So life grew together and from one another and thus became reciprocal, and cyclical. There was a give, and take, and it worked. And there was harmony.
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And so it came that we breathe in what the trees exhale and vice versa. We are the makers and the takers of everything we see as we are all intertwined, woven from most of the same DNA. But yet we have returned to chaos, away from nature, and the loss of order, awaiting rebirth. We forget simplicity and all of life that is innate and inherent. In these times, as we fight to return to homeostasis we seek out what makes us whole, what completes the circle, what gives us life.
We seek to consume foods and experiences that nourish us on a deeper level. We are feeding an old place, past emotion, past necessity. We are trying to return to harmony. And it is not just food that feeds us. Every element of the environment around us is absorbed into our being through our senses and our spirit. And so we long for spaces and places that are natural, and peaceful, in hopes to reflect that inwardly and be one with our surroundings. To be poised and at ease like a plant, grown from the nutrients of the soil beneath, and the rays of the sun above, and to belong nowhere else but in the embrace of here and now.
— Squarespace