Butter Story
Graham Gemoets, Eventertainer and Owner
graham@butterandcompany.com
713.820.3221
I’ve spent my entire life planning events. With my mother’s good china, a kid’s cookbook and a box of Bisquick, I started hosting amateur dinners by age nine. Entrepreneurial at ten, I staffed a corner lemonade stand with neighborhood friends. In my first Montrose apartment, sheet-covered plywood on cinderblocks set the stage for frequent “on the floor” supper parties.
A University of Houston graduate, I spent a decade planning tradeshows for WorldCom but it was my subsequent experience executive assisting their billionaire former president that served as a combination graduate/finishing school.
Self-employed by 2006, I tackled my first catered affair: A giant Christmas party where practically everything I owned was utilized for décor; old college textbooks and some lampshades were swathed in fabric and recruited to elevate buffet platters.
Now, having assembled a merry team of well-seasoned professionals to form Butter & Company, we work hard to ensure the buttery goodness of catered events all around Texas. Our flair for the original ensures each-and-every one of our clients can “Party Like Millionaires,” even on a budget.
Tiffany Ainsworth, Executive Chef
My earliest cooking memories are of watching Chef Tell on PBS; I was mesmerized by the way he clinked his ingredient-filled ramekins together before adding them to steaming copper pots.
Family holidays always circulated around our kitchen, where mouth-watering Southern Comfort Food was never in short supply. I can still taste my mother’s cream gravy.
As a young adult, I landed a job as a server at Post Oak Grill where I realized my dream was to graduate culinary school.
Hoping to finance my ambition, I begged for a table captain position at famed Brennan’s of Houston but instead found myself whisked into their kitchen. Though paid a lowly minimum wage, the education was priceless.
I furthered my studies at the Culinary Institute of America and have cooked professionally in Manhattan, Las Vegas and Honolulu.
Now back home in Houston, I quickly discovered a mutual interest in “eventertaining” with Graham Gemoets of Butter & Company. We’ve been making food and friends ever since.
Robert Iris, Director of the Butter Business Bureau
I joined Butter & Company to direct our business development in early 2011 after 15 successful years in the petroleum industry.
While holding degrees in journalism and art, my favorite memories are of learning proper kitchen etiquette from my mother, who taught home economics and cooking.
I gather inspiration for new trends in entertaining from my ongoing international travels. Having studied French cuisine in Paris, the art of pizza in Italy and the spice of curry in India, I am most passionate about authentic Tex-Mex in my home and heartland, Houston.
And I love a great party.
923 NICHOLSON STREET, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77008INFO@BUTTERANDCOMPANY.COM
713.820.3221
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