For over 30 years I have had the opportunity to nourish thousands of people working as a private and professional chef and also as a cooking teacher while serving as the director of two wellness centers. The ingredients I use have evolved...rather dramatically! I was raised consuming a Standard American Diet (SAD). Fortunately, an invitation to be macrobiotic for thirty days in college, a deep quest for the truth, and an innate curiosity has kept me tasting and experimenting. My passion for creating exquisitely nourishing foods has become even richer through the years as I infuse more herbal medicine.

My creations are pure and simple made from the freshest organic ingredients sourced as locally as possible, and utilizing a full spectrum of colors. My favorite ingredients are flowers. I do believe the saying, "you are what you eat." Reason enough for me to choose the highest vibrational, freshest and most beautiful foods.

I deeply appreciate sharing what I have learned from countless incredible chefs and teachers. Starting early on a macrobiotic path I was blessed to have Japanese chefs as teachers. Their passion for approaching each plate as a blank canvas poised for expression deeply inspired my inner artist.

Over 30 years of working in roles from: cook to sous chef to head chef, restaurant manager, caterer, baker, cooking teacher, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and Nutritional Director of Scripps Chronic Pain Regeneration Center has offered me great insights into the power of our food choices. It is sad that we have been so misled about nutrition and that food was so overlooked as the medicine that it is. My early work focused on cancer patients. People who would turn to us as a last attempt to save their life....and it worked, over and over.

While living on the West Coast I had the opportunity to work closely with people suffering from chronic pain. Again, often told there was no hope, I witnessed the transformation that ones choices makes. What crosses the threshold of our lips becomes a part of who we are, for better or worse. Make every choice become a positive contribution toward your health, and the health of our economy, our soil, our communities and our environment. Please support your local farmers and farmer's markets.

I offer personal and group cooking classes and lifestyle consulting. I have personally explored a very broad range of fasts and cleanses, and disciplines for embracing attainable and maintainable healthy living practices. I don’t choose the word diet very mindfully. I believe healthy choices are a lifestyle, not a passing fad or diet. I’ve guided hundreds of people in making wiser choices for the health of their body, mind and spirit. So whether you want to lose weight or embrace healthier living for yourself or your family…feel free to reach out and share your desires or goals and I’m happy to see how I might be able to support you.

And, if you’d like to add edible flowers to your garden, or to your commercial restaurant grounds I'm also available to consult on those additions. And if you have an event that you’d like catered my son, Chef Loghan Call has created Planted Cuisine which offers a wide variety of opportunities for pop-up dinners and cuisine experiences.

Bon Appetite!