Laura Pensiero: From Clinical Dietitian to Accidental Restaurateur building Hudson Valley Mediterranean Magic

<p>Meet Laura Pensiero, RDN</p><p>Registered Dietitian, Chef, Author, Consultant and Speaker</p><p>Owner of Gigi&#39;s Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY</p><p> </p><p>From studying nutrition, working at NY’s premier hospitalsto sharing a kitchen with world-renowned French chefs to becoming an accidental restaurateur. Meet the tenacious Laura Pensiero, the owner and driving forcebehind GiGi’s Trattoria in Rhinebeck, New York, and author of Hudson Valley Mediterranean. </p><p>From Laura, we learn how to succeed in the restaurantbusiness, build adjacencies to our expertise, and what she has learned as an entrepreneur through the crash following 9/11 and the pandemic. Creativity, good management, and community have become her hallmarks in the 25 years she has been building a robust community in the Hudson Valley.</p><p>Find out what the inimitable Julia Child told her aboutnutritionists and about the books she worked on with the likes of Le Cirque&#39;s founding chef, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Alain+Sailhac&sca_esv=4ae20d8bd47daad1&biw=1319&bih=715&sxsrf=ANbL-n5iW7bVEJotJxgVZ5-9PehwI1uEGA%3A1773771117280&ei=bZm5aZ_TEJOcw8cPz7X_yAs&ved=2ahUKEwiQi4G1xKeTAxUnmYkEHR2DKUUQgK4QegQIARAB&uact=5&oq=Alain+Sak%2C+who+was+the+first+chef+at+Le+Circe+in+New+York+and%2C+uh%2C+was+from+Provence.&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiVUFsYWluIFNhaywgd2hvIHdhcyB0aGUgZmlyc3QgY2hlZiBhdCBMZSBDaXJjZSBpbiBOZXcgWW9yayBhbmQsIHVoLCB3YXMgZnJvbSBQcm92ZW5jZS5I_B9QAFjNG3AAeACQAQCYAdoBoAGtAqoBBTEuMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIAoAIAmAMA4gMFEgExIECSBwCgB-EFsgcAuAcAwgcAyAcAgAgA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp">Alain Sailhac</a>, and  Jacques Pépin, Jacques, Torres, and the late André Soltner.</p><p><br></p><p>Meet Laura at  https://www.laurapensiero.com/</p><p>Gigi’s Hudson Valley https://www.gigihudsonvalley.com/</p><p>Books &amp; Media:</p><p>Laura has worked on The French Culinary Institute&#39;s Salute to Healthy Cooking, From America&#39;s Foremost French Chefs (1998); The Strang Cookbook for Cancer Prevention: AComplete Nutrition and Lifestyle Plan to Dramatically Lower Your Cancer Risk (1998). by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Laura+Pensiero&text=Laura+Pensiero&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books">LauraPensiero</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2?ie=UTF8&field-author=Michael+Osborne&text=Michael+Osborne&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books">Michael Osborne</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_3?ie=UTF8&field-aut