Robin Rasmussen, 30, of Napa, California, lead pastry cook with Solbar Restaurant at the Solage resort in Calistoga, California, died suddenly in an automobile accident near St. Helena, California, on April 27, 2011. She is survived by her parents, Karen and Chris Rasmussen of Mare Island, Vallejo, California; her grandfather, Edward Sturm of San Rafael, California.
A 1999 graduate of Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, Colorado, she attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2003. She found her passion in the kitchen, completing the pastry program at Tante Marie's Cooking School in San Francisco. In California's Napa valley, she worked in the pastry kitchens at Brix in Yountville, then at Ubuntu in Napa.
A celebration of Robin's life will be held in San Francisco later this summer.