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Chef Rachel Matesz

 
 

Chef Rachel Albert-Matesz earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and communications from the University of Washington (Seattle). She has been a cooking instructor, consultant, healthy cooking coach, and food and health writer for 18 years. In 1988 Rachel started and ran Rachel's Natural Foods Cafe in Seattle, Washington. She has led more than 650 cooking classes in Ohio, Michigan, California, Washington, and Arizona, and is now also working with Joe Kasper as part of his Fire Your Diet coaching team!

Previous works include Gourmet Wholefoods, Cooking with Rachel, and The Nourishment for Life Cookbook. More than 200 of Rachel's articles have appeared in national magazines, including Natural Home, Living Without, The Herb Companion, Herbs for Health, Yoga Journal, Let's Live, Oxygen Women's Fitness Magazine, Muscle & Fitness, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Conscious Choice, Well Being Journal, Veggie Life, Vegetarian Times, Vegetarian Journal, and Macrobiotics Today.

Chef Rachel developed 130 recipes for two books by best-selling author Barry Sears, including 90 recipes for Zone Meals in Seconds (Harper-Collins 2004). She is also a faculty member of the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe, teaching in the nutrition department.

The Garden of Eating Diet and Cookbook

To maintain human health we need to ensure a supply of high-quality foods for every generation to come. We need to support small, local farmers raising animals, vegetables, and fruits in harmony with Mother Nature not only for our personal health but also to preserve her fertility for our descendants.

In The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet and Cookbook we clearly explain the benefits of modeling our diets after hunter-gatherer food ways, and convert these ideals into a practical guide to dietary change, including

  • Top tips for stocking, outfitting, and organizing a whole-foods kitchen
  • Sample menus, meal prep plans, and shopping lists
  • Methods and resources for making a natural foods diet economical
  • 250 delicious grain- and dairy-free recipes for
  • Cooked leafy greens, flowering vegetables and shoots
  • Side salads and main-dish salads
  • Roots, tubers, squash, and other vegetables
  • Salad dressings, sauces, sprinkles, spice rubs, and relishes
  • Fresh and dried fruits
  • Nut-based sweets and treats
  • Eggs, fish, poultry, and red meat
  • Beverages, smoothies, and Vita-Mix whole food juices
  • Alternative natural sweeteners including stevia and agavé nectar
  • Holiday and special occasion
  • Proper preparation of whole grains

I hope you enjoy roaming in The Garden of Eating, and I hope to get a chance to help you get fantastic health as part of Joe Kasper's Fire Your Diet coaching team.

 

Sincerely,

Rachel Albert-Matesz