Holy Thursday Cooking with Chef Sophia: Pastitsio/Moussaka Mashup!

Sophia Manatakis

Growing up in her family’s Greek restaurant Uncle Nick’s, paved the way of her dream to be a chef. Sophia Manatakis Graduated from the French Culinary Institute in 2012.Taking the opportunity to be a sous chef in the Mentor Young Chef competition ignited her self confidence to start cooking on her own. Sophia realized making short term career goals in the cooking world was the key to being happy. Along the way, she finally started her own cooking company which provides meals for people trying to meet fitness goals. Sophia appeared on Food Networks chopped in 2017. Since being on chopped, doors have opened and Sophia is getting noticed in the culinary world. The Orthodox Christian Network recognized her with the 30 Under 30 entrepreneurship award for Culinary Arts at 24 years old. Today, you can still find Sophia going after each dream. In fact, the most recent accomplishment was a grant, given by the Mentor BKB company, where she chose to further her education in Italy.