All the world may or may not be a stage – we can debate that later – but the restaurant kitchen unquestionably is. And no chef understands that better than Zach Castillo. When Castillo was growing up in Bay View, there were two constants: good food and ballet practice.

Castillo started his dance training at 6 years old. “It just fit me,” he says. “It was love at first sight.” Through grade and high school, his after-school protocol consisted of three to four hours a day of dance practice and rehearsals at Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy.

At home, family meals were similarly fixed – always from scratch, often using ingredients from their garden. Castillo’s grandparents had a particular impact on his developing food ethos; memories of squeezing oranges with his grandfather to make fresh

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