Mike is the Culinary Engineer and co-owner of Well-Oiled Events. As a chef for 26 years, Mike has developed an affinity for preparing familiar ingredients in unfamiliar ways and unfamiliar ingredients in familiar ways. Curing, smoking, fermenting, dehydrating and pickling: Mike has figured out how to preserve just about everything except his youth. When he isn’t in the kitchen, Mike enjoys spending time with his two children, taking things apart unnecessarily and hoarding an unreasonable amount of rendered animal fats in his freezer (because someday, he might need it).