The relationship between food and love is the basis of many platitudes. And for the couples featured in this month’s Milwaukee Magazine the cliches hold true: food and love are an inseparable pair. In honor of Valentine’s Day, the February edition of the magazine showcased a number of couples who own and operate restaurants in Milwaukee. Chefs Lisa Kirkpatrick and Paul Zerkel makeup one of the couples featured in the magazine. Kirkpatrick and Zerkel are among the co-owners of Goodkind in Bay View, where they work side-by-side in the kitchen. Their culinary (and musical) careers first brought them together two decades ago, when Kirkpatrick was working in the same kitchen as one of Zerkel's bandmates. They locked eyes across the room and before long, the two were planning a cross-country move to Portland. "It was kind of a whirlwind," says Zerkel, "I had a Cadillac Coupe de Ville and [Kirkpatrick] had a dream to go to the West Coast." They moved to Portland, Oregon, where they were
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