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Chapter Officers:
President: Jennifer Harris
Secretary: Wendy Johnson
Lisa Arose, Arose Foods
Phone: (206) 695-2919
Email: info@arosefoods.com
Website: www.arosefoods.com
Lisa Arose, the Executive Chef and Owner of Arose Foods Personal Chef & Catering Service, worked in health research, communications and consulting for 10 years before trading in her laptop for her chef knife. Since she was a teenager, Chef Lisa has loved to cook and entertain, often catering the parties of her family and friends. She has always used the sharing of food as a vehicle to bring family and friends together, and now she helps her clients to do the same by reviving the long-lost family dinner and making fabulous parties easy.
Chef Lisa approaches cooking and entertaining with a generous spirit and a sense of humor. Chef Lisa believes local, organic ingredients and simple recipes let food shine and make people happy. Contemporary comfort food, familiar foods updated for modern tastes and values, is her specialty. Her professional and educational background in health and nutrition helps her to understand and meet clients' special dietary requests and health concerns. Chef Lisa believes food truly does feed the soul--that part of us that craves the flavors of our youth, the memories of comfort or of adventurous travel. Food awakens our sensory memory and recreates our experiences by taking us back to the place where we tasted that first sumptuous bite.
Virginia Blashill, The Fresh Chef
Phone:(425) 741-3622
Email: chef@the-fresh-chef.com
Website: www.the-fresh-chef.com
Virginia has had a long and creative career as a chef. She began cooking at the age of 3, under the tutelage of her mother, who taught her the importance of cooking and baking from scratch, and using fresh ingredients.
Chef Virginia is a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy and a member of the United State Personal Chef Association, as well as the Puget Sound Personal Chef Association.
Chef Virginia has many years of experience in the food industry as a chef, baker and caterer. Although self-trained, she has taken many culinary classes, and apprenticed under talented chefs. Her cooking style is eclectic, with an emphasis on fresh, seasonal ingredients, creative food pairings, and an attention to detail.
An enthusiastic baker, she regularly experiments with artisan breads, and keeps a sour dough starter going in her home refrigerator. Her garden provides year-round fresh, organic herbs. Chef Virginia is committed to providing the best, most flavorful and healthy food possible.
Julie Brown, Chef To You
Phone: (425) 228-2571
Email: cheftoyou@comcast.net
Website: www.cheftoyouseattle.com
Julie Brown has been teaching the art of cooking and nutrition for over 30 years. She holds her masters degree in education and has had further training from Seattle Arts Institute and San Antonio Culinary School. Julie Brown is an accomplished Chef and her passion for cooking is evident through her food preparation, presentation and her ability to create an incredibly pleasurable ambiance. Chef Julie specializes in providing a dining and entertainment experience that soothes the pallet, lifts the spirit and feeds the soul.
Jodi Cheetham, Gourmet Girl
Phone: (206) 963-5634
Email: info@gourmet-girl.com
Website: www.gourmet-girl.com
Chef Jodi is a graduate of the Institute of Integrated Nutrition and a certified Health Counselor, she specializes in health conscious cuisine. She cooks without refined sugars, refined grains, and trans fats. Her clients are busy people who care about staying healthy. Jodi is a Premier member of the U.S. Personal Chef Association and a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy in Phoenix, AZ. Trained at Bon Vivant Cooking School, she’s been cooking for over 10 years.
Wendy Lee Connors, Leave It To Wendy
Phone: (206) 245-3326
Email: info@leaveittowendy.com
Website: www.leaveittowendy.com
Originally from Florida, Wendy learned the culinary traditions of the Southern U.S. as well as the flavors of the Caribbean at an early age. She began cooking as a child under the tutelage of her grandmother. After an early start in the restaurant industry, Wendy pursued academic studies; she holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Washington. Folllowing the completion of her studies, Wendy lived and worked in Europe for five years, where she absorbed the culinary cultures of Scandinavia, Italy and France . Her related interests include regional cuisines, food chemistry, recipe development and nutrition.
Since returning to Seattle in 2005, Wendy has established Leave It to Wendy Personal Chef Service. She is a member of the U.S. Personal Chef Association and a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy . Wendy's philosophy is that a variety of delicious, interesting and fresh foods is the best means to healthy eating. She is excited to have the opportunity to enrich the daily lives of her clients by providing them with great food.
Marci Emery, Marcel’s Personal Chef Service
Phone:(253) 279-3309
Email: marci@marcelspcs.com
Website: www.marcelspcs.com
Marci Emery is chef and owner of Marcel’s Personal Chef Service. She wanted to be a chef all her life, so after she graduated from high school in Europe, she attended John Brown University and earned a degree in Food Technology and Nutrition. Since then, she has taken a number of continuing education courses and graduated from the Culinary Business Academy in California.
Marci has worked in virtually every area in the culinary industry throughout her career, advancing from server to chef in venues from Pennsylvania to Washington. She served, created, cooked, designed, fried, baked, sautéed and grilled her way through restaurants, country clubs, diners, markets and churches, and truly enjoyed every experience. Marci feels very fortunate to work in this industry, whether it means cooking for intimate parties or preparing multicourse dinners for hundreds; as long as people need food, she will be delighted to work with it!
Anita Hardy, A Bushel and a Peck Personal Chef Service
Phone: (206) 478-3206
Email: akhardy@bushelandpeckdinners.com
Website: www.bushelandpeckdinners.com
Anita Hardy was cooking healthy, whole foods before it became big business. Her childhood on an Idaho farm included helping plant, tend, harvest, and putting up the yield from an enormously large (to a child) family garden. Oh, that she could have that garden space today...
As a personal chef she uses advanced culinary skills, while relying on the home cooking fundamentals of menu planning, efficient and responsible grocery shopping, and cooking healthy, family-oriented meals.
As a member of the United States Personal Chef Association, she trained through their affiliate, the Culinary Business Academy. You can count on Anita to bring variety, balance, and healthy options to the menus she proposes, but the dinners she prepares are buon mangia.
Jennifer Harris, Home Plates Personal Chef Service
Phone: (425) 269-7922
Email: jennifer@homeplateschef.com
Website: www.homeplateschef.com/
Jennifer is a Certified Personal Chef and President of the USPCA's Puget Sound chapter. She has loved cooking ever since she was a young girl, sitting in the kitchen watching her father cook. After spending several years as a graphic designer, she finally realized that it was time to turn her passion for cooking into a career.
Jennifer is a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy in Phoenix, and her formal training includes classes at several sites around Puget Sound. She enjoys preparing cuisines from all over the world, but her favorites include Mediterranean and Northwest Seasonal Cooking. She takes great joy in preparing good food for friends and family and is excited to have the chance to cook for others.
Wendy Johnson, In The Mood For…Personalized Meals
Phone: (206) 890-1100
Email: inthemoodformeals@gmail.com
After many years of hearing busy people and families ask "I don't' know. What are you in the mood for?" when deciding meals, Wendy transferred her passion for convenient, great and healthy food into a business. As a lifelong learner, Wendy has woven her family cooking, formal training and her intuition for taste into personalized food that matches your mood for weeknight meals and food parties. As a busy former corporate executive, she understands the balance needed for feeding your life and feeding yourself.
Whether you have nutrition needs, lifestyle needs or cravings, Chef Wendy will work with you to create individual menus and timing that suits you. Proud Member of the United States Personal Chef Association and Puget Sound Personal Chef Association.
June Lin, Healthy Chef
Phone: (206) 484-6527
Email: june@chefjune.com
Website: www.chefjune.com
Inspired by a life-long passion for cooking and health, June Lin became a personal chef to share her love of preparing healthy gourmet cuisine for others. She began her culinary career in 1995 as a registered dietitian specializing in diet design for clients at hospitals, schools, public health agencies, and agricultural corporations. In 2000, June created Healthy Chef with a focus on providing "Custom cuisine for special diets." Her clients include busy singles, couples and families tired of eating take-out, overweight people wanting an easy-to-follow meal plan that works, people with food allergies or illnesses, seniors on restrictive medical diets, professional and "weekend-warrior" athletes, and overwhelmed moms who just need some extra help in the kitchen. Let Healthy Chef make your life easier! Servicing Seattle and the Eastside communities.
June Lin received her Bachelors degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and dietetic internship from Cal State Long Beach. She is a graduate of the Seattle Culinary Business Academy and a Premier Member of the USPCA since 2000. Healthy Chef was featured in Discovery Health Channel's "The Body Challenge" in 2004.
Sara Myron, My Chef Sara
Phone: (253) 225-4452
Email: sara@mychefsara.com
Website: www.mychefsara.com
My Chef Sara, located in Gig Harbor Washington, is a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy inDenver, Colorado. She is also a Premier Member of the United States Personal Chef Association. Sara is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s of Science in Dietetics through local courses and Eastern MichiganUniversity.
Chef Sara has been satisfying the culinary needs of the South Puget Sound area for more than 16 years. In that time she has provided a wide range of services to include: Full scale wedding receptions, Formal Afternoon Tea, Intimate dinner parties, Cocktail Parties, and Special Retreat Cooking. In addition, she teaches cooking classes to introduce new cooks to the fun and healthy side of cooking.
In 2005, Chef Sara decided to focus her love of cooking to small gatherings, dinner parties and retreat cooking. This allows Chef Sara to create a custom menu to suit the individual needs and desires of the client, providing a truly Personal Chef Service. Chef Sara enjoys spending her time in the kitchen so the host and hostess can focus on their guests.
Along with these intimate catering events, Chef Sara is able to provide custom prepared meals to ease your busy schedule, or to meet certain nutritional needs. Contact Chef Sara to schedule a complimentary consultation designed to develop your personalized meal plan.
Susie Naye, At Susie's Table
Phone: (206) 321-1871
Email: atsusiestable@aol.com
Website: www.atsusiestable.com
Susie Naye has been passionate about food since growing up in Los Angeles and learning the ins and out of cooking under her mother's guidance. She has traveled the world for over 35 years in the service industry as an International Flight attendant, in addition to living several years in Paris where she was fortunate enough to train with Patricia Wells in her Paris Cooking Class.
Over the years, Susie has strived to update her knowledge of the preparation of simple, healthy and creative food by educating herself both formally and informally in the Art of Cooking. Her specialty is home-style cuisine with a decided Provencal flair. Through the combination of a relaxed style of cooking and a keen sense of service, At Susie's Table strives to meet the clients' needs of taste and convenience.
Susie is a Premier Member of the United States Personal Chef Association as well as a Graduate of the Culinary Business Academy. She enjoys cooking for working professionals, homebound recovery patients, busy families, retired seniors, and intimate dinner gatherings. Reading a recipe is like "poetry to her ears"!
Marcia Newlands, The Savory Gourmet
Phone: (206) 428-6091
Email: marcia@thesavorygourmet.com
Website: www.thesavorygourmet.com
Chef Marcia Newlands is the owner and executive chef of The Savory Gourmet.
Chef Marcia is an experienced, creative gourmet chef with a restaurant background whose passion is food and feeding people. She is a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy in New Mexico, a premier member of the United States Personal Chef Association (USPCA), and is active in the Puget Sound USPCA chapter. Chef Marcia has cooked for families and clients from Paris to Seattle, has studied at Le Cordon Bleu Academy of Culinary Art in Paris, the Culinary Institute of America, Greystone Campus, in Napa, California, and has attended culinary classes in Austin, Texas, and Seattle, Washington.
Chef Marcia brings years of experience with quality ingredients and creative cuisine to your home kitchen, providing you with high quality meals and services. Her focus is on providing nutritious, healthy meals with local ingredients and international flavors.
Betsy Rogers, Ovens to Betsy!
Phone: (206) 788-0280
Email: chef@ovenstobetsy.com
Website: www.ovenstobetsy.com
Betsy is a Certified Personal Chef and past-president of the USPCA's Puget Sound chapter, a post she held for four years. Her self-taught culinary skills span more than 30 years, and her formal training includes a weeklong "boot camp" at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, classes at Le Cordon Bleu in Ottawa and several cooking series with the Bon Vivant Cooking School in Seattle. She is also a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy in Phoenix. In addition to her personal chef and in-home catering business, Betsy served as the on-board chef for the MV Olympus for a weeklong charter through the San Juan Islands & Victoria, BC in September 2003. She also served as a food stylist for Alaska Smokehouse and has conducted cooking classes in various local schools.
Karen Rosenzweig, Incredible Chef
Puget Sound Chapter
Phone: (206) 419-8407
Email: karen@incrediblechef.com
Website: www.incrediblechef.com
Karen Rosenzweig is a past President of the Puget Sound chapter of the USPCA. She is a former public relations professional who left the corporate world behind to pursue her love of cooking and start her own personal chef business in May 2004. She has been cooking for family and friends since she was 10 years old, and continues to hone her culinary skills by taking advanced cooking classes, working with other chefs and constantly watching The Food Network! She is experienced in a variety of specialty diets - low fat, low carb, allergies, cancer recovery, gluten-free, etc. and enjoys creating customized diets for her clients. She is a member of the United States Personal Chef Association (USPCA) and a graduate of the Culinary Business Academy (CBA).
Erica Strauss, Chez Gourmet
Phone: (206) 920-1411
Email: Chef@ChezGourmetChef.com
Website: www.ChezGourmetChef.com
Chez Gourmet is owned and operated by Chef Erica Strauss. Before starting Chez Gourmet, Erica worked for seven years as a restaurant chef and caterer in the Seattle-area. Chef Erica has been fortunate to work with some of the most esteemed chefs in the Pacific Northwest, including Jerry Traunfeld (The Herbfarm) and Kaspar Donier (Kaspar’s Special Event’s and Catering).
A graduate of the Seattle Culinary Academy, Chef Erica was awarded the prestigious “Most Outstanding Student Award” and completed her Culinary Externship at The Herbfarm in Woodinville, WA. Further study earned Erica her Personal Chef Diploma from the Culinary Business Academy. Erica is a Premier Member of the United States Personal Chef Association and Puget Sound Personal Chef Association.
As a Personal Chef, Erica loves providing delicious, healthy and customized meals to her busy, discerning clients. She takes inspiration from global cuisines and Pacific Northwest seasonality to create restaurant-quality entrees that give her clients back their dinner hour.
Lesa Sullivan, Lesa Cooks
Phone: (206) 478-0562
Email: chef@lesacooks.com
Website: www.lesacooks.com
Some of the best food on earth is found right here in the Northwest. Chef Lesa believes in using that bounty, sourcing locally from producers who use sustainable practices. She’s an avid fan of her neighborhood Farmers’ market and augments her shopping basket with foods grown in her garden.
Chef Lesa has been a professional cook in the Seattle area for ten years, cooking at several popular Seattle restaurants including Kaspar's, Jitterbug, The Rose Club, and Dinette. She graduated from the Seattle Central Culinary Arts Program in 1998.
Lesa donates her time as a volunteer chef and instructor for local non-profit organizations including Operation Frontline. She’s a member of the Washington State Chefs Association, Seattle Tilth, Chef's Collaborative, Sustainable Seattle and the United States Personal Chef Association, the country's best source of personal chefs.
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