Upon arriving back in the South, Carrier reconnected with her mentor Dorothy Sturm. While pregnant with her first child, Carrier’s first venture was creating Memphis’ premier catering company, Another Roadside Attraction Catering. Like all good Southerners, she eventually returned home to Memphis in 1987, to start a family and plant the seeds for a restaurant empire. She later celebrated Independence Day in 1986, with the birth of her first restaurant, Automatic Slims – One Bar Under a Groove a Memphis meets Manhattan Juke Joint in Greenwich Village that melds soul food with Southern fried sensibilities. In 1983 Carrier launched Lunch Catering in New York City, to the fashion photography industry. They worked together over the next several years riding the Tex Mex wave and helping to usher in the Cajun Creole craze at the acclaimed Tribeca restaurant Bon Ton Roule. The two exchanged names, the student promised to start work the next day and Carrier never returned to graduate school. The other woman, Chef Susan Trilling (one of New York’s top caterers) was a caterer in need of help. A struggling art student mentioned her love of cooking and lack of money. “It was a chance encounter in the restroom of a trendy New York restaurant. Karen’s culinary journey in New York City during the 1980’s charged her creative juices, and she eventually gave up her scholarship to Hunter College and chose to continue on her culinary journey. In an effort to support her self she enrolled in The New York Cooking School for a six-week intensive food course. Sturm would bestow.Īfter graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Memphis Academy of Art and receiving a scholarship to Hunter College for her MFA in painting Carrier lit out to New York City in 1980.
Apprenticing and studying under the brilliant artist, Dorothy Sturm, Carrier spent her early years at The Memphis Academy of Art gaining as much knowledge as Ms. Her first love was painting and glasswork and that, in a roundabout way, is where she got her start in the culinary world. An energetic and vivacious woman, Carrier was born and raised in Memphis. From art student to artist, designer to chef to restaurateur, Karen Carrier has been creating in different mediums for over 25 years.
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