Stephanie Bogdanich grew up in Springfield and Chicago IL where she spent her childhood watching Star Trek, learning the name of every dog she met, and insisting her Serbian grandmother prepare her tacos.
She moved to Olympia WA in 1998 to pursue her education at the The Evergreen State College where she studied taco science, among other things. In 2003, she moved to Austin TX where she discovered the astonishing variety of tacos and spent the next eleven years in search of the perfect taco.