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Chef/Owner
Amy has over 20 years of experience as a chef. Her interest in cooking began during restaurant work in high school and her passion for food began at birth. Her enthusiasm for creating and appreciating well-prepared food lead her to culinary school. She attended the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York a year after graduating high school.
Amy has appeared on Philadelphia's NBC affiliate, the 10! Show, numerous times to demonstrate everything from Halloween ghost cupcakes to sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving. She has also appeared on CN8's Your Morning, Fox News and Seeking Solutions with Suzanne.
Amy grew up in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia and attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls. Her love of the area and commitment to environmental issues led her to create a grassroots community organization called GReenINChestnutHill (GRINCH) .
Amy married chef John Millard in 2002.
Shortly after they married he began running the bakery with Amy.
John Millard
Chef/Owner
John Millard, a graduate of the University of Illinois, has honed his craft in such kitchens as Cafe Max in Florida as well as the White Dog Cafe and Odeon in his adopted city of Philadelphia.
After marrying Amy in 2002, John joined the Night Kitchen Staff. A motivated self learner, John easily adapted his savory cooking skills to baking. John bakes the majority of the cakes, cookies, pies and prepares the cake fillings and icings. John has delivered the majority of wedding cakes and large specialty cakes over the years.
John has two sons, Andrew (20) who attends Lehigh University and Danny (16) who attends Lower Merion High School. John's love for computers and information led him to create the Night Kitchen blog, Facebook Fan Page and sets of Night Kitchen Bakery photos on Flickr photo sharing website.
Jennifer Low
Co-Pastry Chef
Jennifer grew up in neighboring Germantown and is a graduate of Germantown Friends School. She then went on to earn her BA in liberal arts from Wesleyan University with a major in anthropology. After college she attended the Culinary Institute of America where she graduated as valedictorian with an Associates Degree in Baking and Pastry Arts.
Jenny joined the Night Kitchen seasonally as an intern during college and is now thrilled to have risen to the rank of Pastry Chef. Jenny's artistic skills and daring and courageous inclinations have lead her to create more shaped cakes and cakes with intricate detail. In her free time she spins fire and dabbles in acrobatics.
Maureen Kehner
Co-Pastry Chef
Maureen earned her Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh . After realizing that was not her true passion, she attended the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley, California. She earned her certificate in Baking and Pastry in 2006. She has worked for Lacroix at the Rittenhouse and Le Bec Fin. Maureen's keen eye and passion for design has made her an excellent cake decorator. Her sewing skills enabled her to create the Night Kitchen staff aprons and matching curtains.
Peri Anderson
Assistant Pastry Chef
Peri, a Brooklyn, NY native, graduated from Wagner College with a degree in Arts Administration. Though her focus was art and music, Peri gravitated toward the art of cake decorating. In addition to food related classes taken at the New School University in Manhattan, she interned with Chef Andrew Niede of Wedding Cakes by Design. As an intern, Peri assisted the house chef of La Cucina Italiana magazine with catered events and food styling.
One of her many wedding cake designs can be seen in the Summer 2008 issue of Philadelphia Elegant Wedding Magazine. Peri married Brian Anderson of the band Fooling April on August 9th, 2008 and had a knockout baby boy named Hayden in November 2009.
Alex Kujawa
Assistant Pastry Chef
Alex attended The University of Pittsburgh and is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University with a degree in Pastry Arts. Alex has been a creative force at the bakery for nearly as long as Amy has owned it. She was the first Pastry Chef that Amy hired and her creativity was the catalyst for the bakery's foray into 'specialty cakes'. Alex has a natural artistic ability and an innate sense of color and design.
She and her husband, Chef Chris, have a beautiful daughter named Mischa.
