I lead group and private cooking classes, cooking parties, healthy shopping tours, corporate lunch and learn presentations, and speak to groups. I coach clients who want to learn to stock, outfit, and organize their kitchens for efficiency and and health. I develop and/or modify recipes, teach people how to make healthy food taste phenomenal even if they have food allergies or intolerances. I also do freelance food and health writing for magazines and newspapers and write cookbooks.

RACHEL ALBERT-MATESZ The Healthy Cooking Coach Phoenix, AZ 85018 Phone: (602) 840-4556 Email: ChefRachel@earthlink.net Web site: Blog: www.TheHealthyCookingCoach.com Profile: Energetic, enthusiastic, friendly, highly motivated, creative chef and writer with 23 years of experience as a cooking instructor, healthy cooking/healthy eating coach, freelance food and health writer, book author, and restaurateur. Demonstrated history of meeting deadlines for publication in writing for national publications. Proven ability to translate abstract dietary guidelines/prescriptions into attractive and delicious recipes and meals. Persistent in seeing large, complex writing projects to completion. SKILLS SUMMARY Professional speaking, recipe development, Cooking for special diets, writing about food, editing, teaching, artful food presentation, food styling assistant, wellenss coaching PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: PUBLIC SPEAKING/TEACHING/ARTFUL FOOD PRESENTATION * Taught 800+ cooking classes in Ohio, Michigan, California, Washington, and Arizona. * Teach Whole Foods Cuisine for Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Tempe, AZ. * Lead cooking instructor for 3 Health Classic Retreats, San Diego, Santa Barbara, CA. * Group and private cooking classes, cooking parties, dinner parties, kitchen organization, meal and menu planning, healthy shopping tours, recipe modification for special diets SPECIALTY WHOLE FOODS COOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, RESTAURANT * Personal Cheffing (references on request). * Cooking for yoga and meditation retreats, Sunnyside Retreat Center, Brooklyn, MI. * Head chef, Rachel’s Natural Foods Cafe, Seattle, WA. FOOD & HEALTH WRITING/EDITING * Published more than 225 articles in national magazines. Publication names and samples available upon request. * Wrote and published five cookbooks (self-published four of them). RECIPE DEVELOPMENT/SPECIAL DIETS * Developed recipes for two books by bestselling author, Barry Sears * Developed Recipes for my own books. More info available by request. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: * Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Tempe, AZ., Whole Foods Cuisine Instructor, 10-2003 to present. * Self-employed cooking instructor, freelance food/health writer, personal chef, Toledo, OH, and Phoenix, AZ, 2-1990 to present. * Larry’s Market, Seattle, WA, Healthy Products Consultant, 8-1989 to 2-1990. * Rachel’s Natural Food Cafe, Seattle, WA, Head Chef, 4-1988 to 2-1989. EDUCATION: SOUTHWEST INSTITUTE OF HEALING ARTS Certificate of Completion, Transformation Life Coaching, August, 2004 KUSHI INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN Level I: Leadership Studies--Fall to Winter 1985 Natural foods theory and cookery, natural home remedies, shiatsu massage UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,Seattle, WA Bachelor’s Degree Sociology and Communications, 1985 Special emphasis: Organizational Sociology REFERENCES AVAILALABLE BY REQUEST