We are proud of the great food and elegant service we provide all of our clients.

Village Catering was founded in 1976 and purchased by Daryl Trainor in 1982. Most of Village Catering's clients are repeat customers, and most of Daryl's staff have worked with her for years.

Daryl Trainor Twerdahl

Biography

Los Angeles , CA --Daryl Trainor Twerdahl has one of the most unusual backgrounds you can imagine to be the owner of one of Los Angeles' leading specialty catering firm.

She hales from Greasy Corner, Arkansas, where catering was a little known art. After graduating from the Hutchinson School in Memphis, and Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia, Daryl received a Masters' Degree in Irish Studies from University College in Dublin, Ireland .

With an early career in retail including a stint at Williams Sonoma, the cooking bug bit. "Growing up, we always had a cook so that I never really appreciated the art and skill of good cooking. But having many Southern friends who were fine cooks, living in Europe, and enjoying the emerging California cooking scene in the 1970s really gave me an appreciation and love for fine cooking and dining", commented Daryl.

Village Catering is a full-service catering company serving clients in the greater Los Angeles area. The Company specializes in serving groups of 20 to 200 people. Clients include individual families, corporate clients and major law firms. "We call it 'catering with a personal touch' because every menu we prepare is tailored to the client and their particular likes and dislikes. We create sophisticated menus, but for great nostalgic memories we also prepare dishes for our clients from their grandmothers’ and great-grandmothers’ recipes. We do formal multi-course meals as well as jambalaya or extra hot chili based on our clients' wishes. I don't think we have ever repeated a menu from one client to another."

Village Catering and the work of Daryl Trainor Twerdahl have been featured in Gourmet, Bon Appetite, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Style, Gault Mileau, Los Angeles’ Magazine’s “Best of L.A.” and most recently in Town and Country . Daryl has been a teacher and lecturer for schools, clubs, commercial firms and for the Young Presidents’ Organization. She is also a graduate of the Washington School of Protocol and founder of The Los Angeles School of Etiquette and Protocol, a firm specializing in training children, students, business executives and others in contemporary, practical etiquette and protocol.

Daryl and her husband, Jim Twerdahl, have five children and live in Los Angeles, California , where she has been very active in civic and charitable activities. Her principal charitable passion is for St. Vincent Meals on Wheels which serves 2,500 meals each day to the homebound and hungry in Los Angeles.

Daryl Trainor's Village Catering Company

214 South McCadden Place

Los Angeles, California 90004

323-939-2154 Fax: 323-931-8538         E-mail: Daryl@Twerdahl.net