Chef Suzan "Z" Gray, ServSafe® Certified NRAEF
Chef Z + Creativity + Passion = AWESOME FOOD!
Chef Suzan "Z" Gray is incurably passionate about FOOD!
SPECIALIZING IN THE USE OF ORGANICS!
Chef Suzan Gray has received ServSafe® Certification through NRAEF (NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION).
Chef Z began her food career utilizing the act of writing, as a segue from a full blown art career in California in the mid 1990's to becoming a professional foodie just a few years later. Initially commissioned by the Monterey County Post in Carmel, CA to write a monthly food column as a stimulus for the minds and palates of their readership, her column, entitled "What's Cooking at the Casa?" soon morphed into a weekly contribution, due to instant popularity.
It was at this time that her incurable passion for healthy food and the creative way in which it can be envisioned and manifested began to take root in her heart and mind and whispered alluringly in her ear. Onward and eastward, Chef Z relocated to Richmond, Virginia and taught cooking and baking, in tandem with Pastry Chef sister Melissa, at the Compleat Gourmet in Richmond's famed Carytown area. As well, the newspaper column that had thrown her into food writing in California had now transformed itself into a self-published newsletter of the same title, distributed as hard copy to anxious readers around the country.
Now fully relocated to the east coast, Chef Z added to her resume with two stints as a Catering Manager at St. Catherine's Private School and the University of Richmond, ulitmately catapulting her into yet another change in her career. Hired as a Private Chef for a dignitary in the beautifulf Charlottesville, VA area, responsible for the full time feeding of the household, Chef Z moved to Charlottesville and resides there to this day.
Having picked back up with writing for several years for a local gourmet paper in Charlottesville called IN THE KITCHEN, Chef Z now develops and writes customized recipes for her cooking students and is also in the process of writing her memoirs, cleverly disguised as a cookbook based on her unique experiences in the food industry as a Catering Manager and Private Chef. Simultaneously, she is beginning a new project as co-author for a book on the healing essence of foods with a naturpathic doctor.
Today, almost 10 years later, Chef Z teaches privately, consults with forward thinking food establishments that offer organic and healthy products to their clientele, writes passionately about the subject of food, offers private chef services for her "clients du jour" and is in essence and intention, completely and utterly consumed with the thought of healthy food as a lifestyle to be enjoyed and applied as a means of becoming and remaining healthy.
...Buono appetito! Chef Z
Chef Z has written nationally for Chicago based
LIVING WITHOUT magazine,
focused on assisting
and educating those with food allergies.
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