Mina Seck can’t help herself. She cries at every wedding she’s ever been to. Her favorite thing about weddings, though, beyond celebrating the hopeful love story, is cooking for the newly hitched couple and their friends and family. “I just catered my first wedding since the pandemic,” says the chef and entrepreneur, 33, whose career has scaled new heights along a non-traditional path. Seck, who hails from Reading, Pennsylvania, taps into a culinary heritage informed by Pennsylvania Dutch, Senegalese, and African American roots. The 7 th Ward resident started her three-year-old catering business, BeetsNthyme, in New Orleans, a city she calls her heart and soul.