Together at SoBo: Southern-inspired cooking and coastal favourites from a Tofino institution

Advertisement 8Ahier has worked in restaurants since she was 13, making burgers at Jack in the Box. But she started cooking even earlier than that, standing on a milk crate, flipping Salisbury steaks at a bar and grill her mother managed before she was in kindergarten.

She admits to getting “roped into that front-of-the-house money.” But even when she was waiting tables, she cooked family meals every chance she got. In her 20s, running a B&B and making meals for guests, her path became all the more apparent.Article content Her late father, Harold Barber, saw it in her long before she saw it herself, adds Ahier. “I just had to bite the bullet and do what I was passionate about. And do what brought me joy and put the money on the back burner.”

“When a person finds home, they find home. And I’d never found it because we moved so much when I was a kid,” says Ahier. “When people ask me where I’m from, it’s so hard for me. I say Texas — not that I was born there, but I’d spent more years there. Now, I’ve actually spent more years in Tofino, and both my kids were born here. This is home. This will always be my home. I hope to never leave. I always say it. If something happens and I can’t work with food, I don’t care what I do.

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