If dining with some bourbon-drinking, beautiful women who can cook a gourmet meal that will blow your mind sounds like fun to you, I’d like to introduce you to the Ladies of On The Lamb, a roving catering firm that creates pop-up culinary experiences.
After spending just a few minutes with Whitney Adams (the beverage expert), Rachel Humphrey (the savory foods expert), and Joy Wilson (the sweet food expert, also known as Joy The Baker), I found myself wishing these ladies were my friends. They laugh and joke, feeding off each other in a way only the best of friends are capable of doing. “The three of us together are an interesting combination, but together we really have a great collaboration,” Adams said.
The three women met while working together and soon after started throwing parties for friends. Each party became more elaborate, with better themes, until they decided that having fun parties with delicious food could be their life. “We kept saying we should do this for real. It was a lot of fun and we love throwing a party. But none of us want to go to the same party every night,” Humphrey remarked. The women decided to turn their obsession of fine food and fun parties in to their life work. “We talk about food and events all the time. We are kind of obsessed with it,” Humphrey said. ”It was like, stop talking about it and do something about it.”
“Why not live the best life possible?” Adams said while sipping French press coffee. The women are each passionate and knowledgeable in their areas of expertise and decided to start out 2010 with their new business, and it is doing well.
Their latest pop-up event was held on Valentine’s Day, with the location being announced to the lucky diners only days before the event. The diners brought their cash and the password which was emailed to them before the event, and were rewarded with an evening of delicious food and drink, consisting of chocolate-cherry infused bourbon, tender pork with wild boar, and various delicious culinary delights. The event was titled, “Love on the Run: a one night (stand) speakeasy,” and was a sold-out, secret dining experience.
To stay tuned to their latest pop-up culinary experiences, one must join their mailing list through www.onthelambfb.com. The ladies send an invitation with limited information to the lucky people on the email list, and the first to respond reserve their spot in culinary bliss.
The ladies of On The Lamb are taking life by its culinary balls and moving forward with their fabulous underground culinary business. The ladies are living the life poets and renegades alike have lived by. Humphrey grinned and summed up their philosophy, “Go forth boldly. That’s what we’re doing with a capital B.”
(Image via Jacquelyn Drayton)
