rockstar chef + wellness dynamo + kitchen gardener
A completely custom, in-home dining, and kitchen garden experience designed around your dietary and menu preferences, lifestyle, and health goals. Whether you're an athlete, busy professional, a family, someone with specific dietary needs, or in recovery, let me be your partner in clean eating and performance nutrition while celebrating your culinary landscape.
About Joanie V
Recognized as a clean food and performance nutrition chef and gardener, growing and cooking for those who eat to live strong. Specializing in seasonally inspired, skillfully customized, palette-specific meal plans, menus, and standardized recipe development. Meals that have led to the success of my principles & client’s personal and professional goals.
With an interest and growing knowledge in performance nutrition, I am also responsible for shaping the lives of fitness athletes, and active clients through the food that fuels them. “Their goals are to be of my greatest achievements.”
With an eagerness to evolve, based on each client’s preferences, coupled with leveraging from year’s experience in globally located kitchen, I transform traditional classics, and outdated recipes, into Clean, Super foods: food that leaves you feeling, looking and living energized.
With a reputation that is riding on every delicious bite, I cook from scratch, using fresh, minimally processed, nutrient dense, antioxidant and enzyme rich whole foods. Optimization the beneficial characteristics of food in its simplest natural form. Resulting in foods that support early childhood development, physical strength, optimal health, and longevity. As a bonus, I include canine and feline clients.
My 20+ year career as chef, pastry chef, catering & event coordinator has included extensive world travel in the private service, music and motion picture industries. To include natural foods, fine dining and corporate kitchens. It is this diversity that influences my individuality in the kitchen, as well as unique flavor profiles of the Multi-Cultural and American Regional foods I prepare. Paying close to attention to their ingredient compatibility and nutritional parameters as well.
Bowl Appétit!
Chef Joanie
JOANIE’S PILLARS
Clean Food
I’m eager to share with you (and your four-legged friends!) clean and nutritious foods using only the freshest ingredients. Keeping clean, fresh and delicious recipes on your table is my top priority. “clean up before plate up”
Good Health
As a Private Chef, Certified Institute for Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, and a Bachelor of Science in Holistic Nutrition and Natural Health, “I feel responsible to help you eat to live, eat well, but thoughtfully well. So, I plan on sharing my best recipes with you. From a heart-centered place with Love. “Food is Love. That’s all you knead to know.”
Sustainable Chef
Let me grow your own groceries or buy local and organic foods to nourish both your body and your community. By cultivating your own produce or supporting local farmers, you’re investing in your health, the environment, and the local economy. Embrace the farm-to-table movement by enjoying fresh, homegrown meals or dining at restaurants that prioritize locally sourced ingredients. There’s nothing better than eating well while making a positive impact—so start growing, buying local, and savoring the difference!