Spread Kitchen Featured in Full-page Chronicle Story
Cristina Topham actually started her Sonoma culinary career by cooking at The General’s Daughter back in the days when Sarah and Darius Anderson still owned it and Ramekins. When Ken Mattson bought both buildings, he assembled the Ramekins leadership staff and fired them all, including Executive Chef Kyle Kuklewski. Loved and admired by many in our community, Kyle hung rainbow flags from both buildings. Cristina quit The General’s Daughter that day, in solidarity with the rest of the staff who had been fired and were immediately escorted out of Ramekins personally by Ken Mattson.
The first most of us heard of Cristina Topham and Spread Catering was when she rented and worked out of someone else’s cramped Napa Valley commercial kitchen when it was available. With a fabulously devoted crew, she took orders online, eventually made meal kits and drove the food and herself around Napa, then adding Sonoma, then adding Marin, and eventually to San Francisco –all by herself to get started…