Chef Chaya
Chaya-Ryvka is a cutting edge Raw Food Chef, educator, and promoter of living in vibrant health. There are a number of environmental factors that can contribuite to or detract from a persons level of health and wellness. The one universal factor we have most control over is the food we put into our bodies.”You are what you eat”, just about every one has heard this statement or more likely made this statement. What most people don’t realize is just how true it is. Through food preparation workshops, lectures, private classes, and catering Chaya-Ryvka enlightens her audiences to a new paradigm of food as medicine – while providing the nurturing flavors and textures we have all come to associate with as satisfying “comfort food”.
Chaya-Ryvka trained for two years as an apprentice with Master Raw Food Chef Elaina Love. Together they catered raw food retreats, served private catered events, taught classes, and opened a raw food café – Café Soulstice in San Mateo, CA. She also apprenticed with gourmet raw pastry chefs and creators of the desserts for the voted #1 Raw food restaurant – Café Gratitude. Chaya is now apprenticing in the art of raw chocolate confections; she works in a newly opened raw/vegan chocolate factory, Coracao Confections (http://www.coracaoconfections.com).
Currently Chaya-Ryvka is expressing her living foods creativity catering private events, teaching group classes, creating specialty gourmet raw desserts, raw wedding cakes and providing private raw lifestyle/kitchen consultations through her company Living Vision, http://thelivingvision.com. She works locally in the Bay area as a raw pastry chef for Café Gratitude, and raw chocolateir for Coracao Confections.
