Cassie Piuma is an American chef and restaurateur, at Sarma, a restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts that she owns with Ana Sortun.
[2] Growing up in Duxbury, Massachusetts,[3] Piuma intended on a career in medicine.
She later moved to Boston and worked for Barbara Lynch at The Butcher Shop and Frank McClelland’s Sel de La Terre.
[4] Piuma also worked for Sortun at Oleana in Cambridge, Massachusetts, eventually becoming Chef de Cuisine.
[4] Piuma has been nominated multiple times for the James Beard Foundation Award Best chef in the Northeast category (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020[3] and 2022[5]).