Susan Scheffler, the other half of Nickell's & Scheffler, was a banker in a former life. One day she realized that counting money for someone else was not as much fun as cooking. So she sold everything, closed up her townhouse, moved from Charlotte, NC and enrolled in the AOS program at the Culinary Institute of America. She graduated in 1998 at the top of her class and hasn't looked back. She is also a graduate of The College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio with a B.A. in Spanish. Because she is a native South Carolinian, southern cooking is a favorite. She ranks celery stuffed with pimento cheese up there as one of her favorite comfort foods as well as country ham, grits and red-eye gravy. Oh and by the way, she met Louie at the CIA, fell in love and the rest is history-or should we say-Nickell's & Scheffler.