Food is energy, and I love both. I've been a healer and educator for over 30 years, but I've been cooking since I was three years old, when I learned to make lasagna in my Italian grandmother's New Jersey kitchen.

 

For the past 14 years, I've been  living in a small town on the southeastern coast of the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. When we arrived in Brazil, I didn't speak Portuguese well. I learned to express myself through baking cakes to give to to my friends.

 

One thing led to the next and before I knew it I was teaching mindfulness and healthy cooking, seeing clients, and opening my own locally sourced, globally flavored restaurant.

 

My cooking is a lot like my healing, which is a lot like my life. It's a multi-cultural, interdisciplinary, and unconventional, rich in complex flavors and full of depth.​