Lesa Sullivan
personal chef/caterer

LesaCooks Personal Chef Service

Websites:

• http://lesacooks.com
• http://lesacooks.typepad.com

I am the owner of LesaCooks.com Personal Chef Service, and I provide restaurant-style meals from your very own kitchen.

LesaCooks.com is a unique service that provides clients with gourmet meals prepared in their own homes, to reheat and serve at their convenience.

Besides weekly dinner service, I do buffet-style caterings for large or small parties; sit-down dinners for a couple or a crowd; and passed hors d'oeuvre, snacks and drinks for informal gatherings.

I am also professional food writer. I currently write for local food purveyor http://www.chefshop.com, and write in my foodblog http://www.lesacooks.typepad.com/crumblebum

I love to make food. I love to talk about it, think about it and write about it. Everything I'm passionate about circles back to it. Food is my way of life.

I make from scratch many foods that have gone the way of convenience. Pasta, bread, charcuterie (see picture!), and desserts are my specialty. I have a big repertoire, but Mediterranean foods are my favorite to cook and eat.

1. I need folks to bounce marketing, administration and financing ideas off of. I'm bootstrapping this operation, and I'd like to meet others who are doing the same.

2. I need to meet other people who are trying to make their business more eco-friendly. The food industry is a vanguard in this respect, but I know there's more to learn from other industries.

3. I need hungry customers! Small business owners have plenty to worry about-dinner shouldn't be one of them. Why not let me take over the stove?

• University of Utah - Philosophy, BS minor in Economics
• Seattle Central Culinary Arts - Certified, CA

other certifications: Quillisascut School of the Domestic Arts United States Personal Chef Association * American Culinary Federation

memberships & associations: Washington State Chefs' Association Seattle Tilth Sustainable Ballard Chefs' Collaborative

Cooking Experience:

• Dinette
• Rosebud Restaurant and Bar
• Bon Appetit Nordstrom's Fashion Bowl
• Central Cinema
• The Jitterbug Cafe
• The Rose Club Cafe
  
• Wild Salmon Seafood Market
• Kaspar's Restaurant

Contributing Author for: The Stranger Hungry? Seattle Family Edition ChefShop.com KUOW-Morning Edition "Food Bites with Mauny Kaseburg"

Retail Management Experience: * Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Volunteer Organizations: Dine out For Life-Lifelong AIDS Alliance Eating Right Cooking Classes-SOS/Operation Frontline Danskin Triathlon-Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Team In Training-Leukemia & Lymphoma Society