Tracy Paulding

A few years after the kitchen opened, Terry’s daughter Tracy joined Paulding & Company, and, besides working side-by-side with her mother on events, decided to start a summer camp for kids—and so, Cook! Programs was born.

Tracy grew up in a food-centric family where, before she learned to cook, she learned to love to eat. After leaving home she found herself inextricably drawn to the kitchen, everywhere she went. Armed with a natural sense for food, a love for feeding people, and a keen wanderlust, Tracy cooked her way from the mountains of New Mexico to the city of Kyoto to the bluffs of the Mississippi in Wisconsin and back to her home in the Bay Area (with many stops in between).

Tracy’s greatest joy is bringing people of all ages together to share in joys of cooking and eating.