Words by Molly Hays
\nPhotography by Jacklyn Greenberg<\/p>\n

If a proper success story should read like a r\u00e9sum\u00e9, all steady build and single-minded trajectory, don\u2019t tell Lucinda Scala Quinn. In 2000, she was home full-time with her three young sons, \u201cfully immersed in motherhood.\u201d Today, she\u2019s a four-time author, entrepreneur, television host, and Executive Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. \u201cMy life has really been an improvisation,\u201d she says. Clearly, this hasn\u2019t been an issue.
\nIn the Beginning
\nLooking back, it\u2019s easy to see the underpinnings of Scala Quinn\u2019s success. Growing up, good homemade food was the norm, and the glue that gathered extended family together. \u201cI was in an environment that felt good. I felt safe and secure and nourished.\u201d Add to that the \u201csocial interactions with multiple relatives, and it just felt amazing to be IN it.\u201d
\nSmall surprise, then, that she began cooking professionally as a teenager. She enjoyed it, excelled at it, moved to New York to pursue it, and then? Walked away. When her sons were born\u2014she has three, Calder (26), Miles (22), and Luca (19)\u2014she switched gears. \u201cI just had this gut sense that I really needed to be rooted where I was.\u201d Freelance writing and odd catering gigs aside, she left the fast track to be home with her boys.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n

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