LISA AHIER is the chef and owner of SoBo and the author of the award-winning The SoBo Cookbook. She has lived in Missouri, Colorado, Texas and Florida but calls Tofino, British Columbia home. After working in numerous restaurants from the age of 13, she landed on the doorsteps of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York at the age of 34. SoBo started as a little purple food truck in 2003 and has since grown into a standalone restaurant, now offering an ever-expanding list of gourmet treats in specialty stores across Canada.