Dana Jaffe
A longtime resident of the Bay Area, Dana has been cooking professionally for more than thirty years. Originally trained through the American Culinary Federation’s apprenticeship program, Dana has experience in every station in the kitchen. During her time in Sonoma County Dana has worked at many of the foundational restaurants that made Sonoma County a dining destination, including the Sonoma Mission Inn, John Ash and Co, and Saddle’s. Although most of her career has been spent serving as an executive chef she is especially fond of pastry and baking. Dana serves refined versions of relaxed fare, drawing on California’s bounty. She believes the dining experience is one of both comfort and joy, and that a kitchen should be a compassionate family-like environment. She has passed these philosophies onto her daughter, who has followed her mother into the kitchen as a professional chef. Dana is currently a denizen of Sonoma and the executive chef at the Mill at Glen Ellen.
