Born in 1986 in Riga, Latvia, Svetlana Davis moved to New York at thirteen, learned English in a Queens public school, and learned heat in a Little Odessa kitchen. After culinary school in Portland and stints on the line at a Georgian bistro in Brooklyn and market stalls near Spitalfields, she began hosting apartment suppers that became the roaming series Tales of House. She consults on menus for neighborhood cafes, teaches weeknight cooking classes, and splits her time between Astoria and Lisbon with her partner, a sound engineer, and a terrier named Kasha.
