The Art of Cuisine

Bio: Linda Galyean  The Healthy Chef

Personal Chef & Instructor

Chef Linda has built a blooming culinary business with multi-media appeal. Her championing of healthy cooking prepared with care and her remarkable culinary talents merit her in-demand status in television, print, and the Internet. As the founder of The Art of Cuisine, her work as a personal chef includes a clientele of high-profile professionals, internationally known authors, celebrities, and the average person next door.

Chef Linda has loved food and cooking since she was a little girl living in the greater Sacramento area and has been providing various food services since 1996. Though she’s recognized by co-workers, friends, and family for her award-winning cakes, and has a passion for cooking and for creating new recipes, Linda also has a passion for art and music.

Ask Chef Linda, “What inspires you?”, and her response will be, “Food! How it grows, what it smells like, why it does at different temperatures. More than anything, I love how I can help people learn to eat healthy, get nourishment from the food they eat, and live healthy lives, and most of all, how food brings people together.”  Linda has enjoyed cooking for a number of celebrities and on television. She is now proud to be holding cooking classes at Arden Hills Country Club & Spa and giving clients private Culinary Inspiration parties/classes in their homes. She enjoys being a personal chef/ instructor and sharing her passion for food. You will find in her classes that you will have plenty of fun and gain plenty of knowledge. Chef Linda teaches easy, systematic, healthy recipes, with tips on timesaving methods that the whole family will love.

Linda is a Certified Personal USPCA Chef, Certified Culinary Inspirations Instructor, a Graduate of the Culinary Business Academy, and has studied at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. She is a Certified ServSafe Food Protection Manager. She has recently been published in the Sierra Style magazine and won a Cooking Club of America recipe contest for a recipe that she created, called the “Chocolate Dream Cake,” which is published in a Cooking Club of America cookbook called Ideas for Entertaining. You will find additional recipes from Linda published in her very own cookbook that she has written. Additional places you will find her recipes are on both Southern Living’s website (Southernliving.com), and Bon Appetite’s and Gourmet’s website (Epicurious.com). Not only does Linda grow her own vegetables and herbs, but she also supports other Northern California food growers, emphasizing the healthful benefits of wholesome cooking: “think globally, eat locally.” 

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The Concept

 If you're tired of eating out and wish to have a healthier diet . . . If you want to spend more time at home, and save time and money . . . The Art of Cuisine will help you accomplish these goals.

 Although everyone's needs vary, a "typical" scenario goes something like this:

1. A food survey is completed to find out your food likes, dislikes and food-related health issues.

2. Based on the results of the survey a menu is created.

3. Example menu consists of 5 entrees with appropriate side dishes. Each meal is divided into different containers, and packaged for the refrigerator or freezer -- for a total of 9 or 10 meals for 2 adults.

4. After designing the menu, purchasing the groceries for the approved menu, all of the meals are prepared -- with cooking tools brought to your home. The meals are then packaged for the refrigerator and freezer with re-heating directions. The dishes are done, dinner is ready, and you'll have good food prepared to your specifications, ready for you to enjoy when you want to; or when you have time. In 2 or 3 weeks different meals are prepared for you.

5. Do the grocery shopping that day. Go to your kitchen, unload the groceries and prepare the chosen meals. One fresh meal for that night's dinner will be in the fridge and the remainder meals will be in the freezer or fridge to be used at a later time.

6. Re-heating instructions will be clearly marked on all containers.

7. And the best part, Chef Linda cleans the kitchen and puts all the pots, etc. away.

8. So you can come home to a stocked fridge and a home-cooked meal that night.

The service works best when it's used on a regular basis; but one-time use can be arranged. Three week's notice is required to begin the service. With a deposit and a service contract is signed.

 Family pricing is also available.

Ask yourself, these questions:

Is my time worth something?

Am I eating well for my body?

Am I feeding my family nutritious meals?

Do I really know enough about new foods and nutrition to plan and create fun, delicious food?

Do I want to learn to cook?

Do you want to impress guess?

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