In the Kitchen
Packet People, Part 8: Packet Studios talks with Samantha Licata
Packet People is a series where Ty Gibbons explores a different side of life of his fellow Packeteers and records their conversation. In this edition, Ty Gibbons, talks to Samantha Licta, Manager, Customer Success at Packet.
Rochester sits really far west in Western New York, which I rediscovered during a somewhat harrowing, snowy drive one early winter morning. As such, I was all the more appreciative of Samatha’s warm hospitality upon my arrival. My phone captured the sounds of the squall and Dexter the dog’s greeting before I switched to the good microphones for a tour of Samantha’s beautiful, historic house.
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Samantha loves cooking, and we had agreed to meet for a homemade lunch. I knew the sounds of the kitchen — the sizzling, chopping, grating — would work well in an audio piece, but I loved the unexpected foray our conversation took towards family. I felt the presence of her parents and grandparents in the kitchen with us as she detailed traditional family recipes. You can hear the reverence in Samantha’s voice for all things culinary when she says mentions brisket and then adds, more quietly and after a pause, “delicious.”
“We actually have a confessional in my husband’s office.”
Ty Gibbons is the Creative Director of Packet Studios. When not in the recording studio, he can be found tinkering at his woodshop in Marlboro, VT.
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