In 2013, Jessica Rosval embarked on a year-long trip to Europe with her then-partner, who had landed a scholarship at a university in Milan. With the city as their home base, they planned to explore Europe and North Africa. The trip also offered Rosval the chance to dine at Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Modena, within Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region.
“I didn’t expect that dinner to change my life,” she said. Rosval’s affinity for restaurants began at the age of 15, when she worked as a hostess at an Italian-American restaurant in Montreal, where she grew up. During her shifts, she would wander into the kitchen and chat with the cooks and dishwasher.
