Josef’s Restaurant in Barbados.  Born 7th October 1971; Charmaine is a mother of 1 son. She has developed her early skills working at the Sandridge Hotel, trained at the prestigious Sandy Lane Hotel and further went on to Carambola and Mullins Restaurant.

A winner of numerous culinary medals in a career expending some 15 years, she is one of the few female head Chefs in a highly dominated male profession.  Charmaine has proven her skills in the creation of fine fusion food at Josef’s and is fast developing a reputation amounts her peers within the culinary fraternity.

 Having been selected to the highly competitive Barbados Culinary team Charmaine participated in, “Taste of the Caribbean” competition held in Jamaica in 2003 where the team was successful in achieving Silver and two individual silver medals, another opportunity arose and Charmaine also joined the 2004 team which travelled to Puerto Rico, with hard work and determination through out the team they were at this time able to bring a gold medal home.  Although Charmaine was unable to take the trip with the team for 2005 as she was continuing her studies at the renowned Culinary Institute of America, this competitive break was well rewarded when she was title chef of the year for 2006.  Her ongoing success at Josef’s has offered her yet another opportunity to be selected to the Barbados Team, who participated in the prestigious tournament held in Miami in June 2006 where yet again the team brought home a silver medal.

Charmaines’ development over the years has fast earned her a reputation in this highly competitive profession as she aspires to further develop not only herself, but to develop the skills and knowledge of her team at Josef’s.  Her greatest wish would be to own and operate a restaurant, which she promises, to be as famous as any in the Caribbean, where she may have the opportunity to prepare her favourite dish Poached Snapper which at present is featured on Josef’s menu.

Ms. Maynard’s hobbies are: Travelling, meeting people and listening to music.