Russell Ragsdale:
CLASS OF 1959
Emerson Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Burbank, CA
Whittier High SchoolClass of 1963
Whittier, CA
Russell's Story
Life
After graduating from Whittier H.S. my family moved to Arizona. I attended the University of Arizona and was a student poet in the Creative Writing Program. I graduated with a B.A. in Literature and Writing. I went into food service, first becoming a retail meatcutter. I did that for almost twenty years before going into the kitchen where I quickly became an executive chef.
In my late forties I took an executive chef possition in Central Asia where I now have lived for the last decade or so. I have opened/reopened nine or ten successful restaurants in Kazakhsta...Expand for more
n and speak conversational Russian. I own and operate a consulting firm which serves the food industry, hotels and catering industry in Central Asia.
I have a home in Tucson, Arizona where my wife and kids are still living. Our two kids (son, daughter) have families of their own and, to date there are two grandsons in my family.
I have written over seventy newspaper articles about food and food history. I contributed to a book on Doing Business in Kazakhstan, published out of London in 2003/2004. I am currently working on a series of essays about order and reality.
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