Elisabeth Prueitt

Elisabeth “Liz” Prueitt is a pastry chef and along with her husband Chad Robertson, the owner of the San Francisco bakery chain Tartine.

Early life Elisabeth Prueitt is a native of Park Slope, Brooklyn. Prueitt first studied acting, then photojournalism, then enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America's (CIA) chef’s training program, She interned and line-cooked at Montrachet, in New York City (in Provence) and Patrick Le Port (in Savoie).

Career Prueitt and Chad Robertson, ran the Wood-Fire Baking in Point Reyes and Bay Village Breads in Mill Valley.

Robertson and Prueitt then opened their first Tartine location in 2002. Bar Tartine, and in 2011, Tartine Sandwich followed. , who she met during her studies at the Culinary Institute of America. co-founded the Conductive Learning Center of San Francisco. The center runs summer camps for children with motor disabilities.