WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
SERA CUNI CHEF AND OWNER, CAFE ROOT CELLAR
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BY BROOKE SPACH
ood has been Sera Cuni’s bread and butter from an early age. Raised in a family of selftaught Italian and Czech cooks, she soaked up all she could while elbow-toelbow with her grandfather in the kitchen and watching Julia Child on PBS with her father. “Everything we ever did always revolved around a kitchen,” Sera says of her childhood. Sera always aspired to be a chef, but a college career-ending soccer injury in 1996 officially set her on the path to culinary school. Since opening Cafe Root Cellar in Pittsboro
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