Jet-Chef Member Spotlight: Flourish

Are planning on visiting the Montrose, Telluride and/or Aspen, Colorado areas for some fantastic skiing (and the amazing apres ski scene, of course!)? Do you have a vacation home in the area? Or, are you someone who lives in those areas year-around? Flourish is the perfect Personal Chef Service for your cuisine needs!

(image from www.skimall.net/skitelluride)

Flourish, founded by Chef Sarah Mandell, is committed to using fresh, organic whole foods, to creating balanced delicious meals loaded with nutritional value and full of flavor. Whether you're too busy to spend valuable time in the kitchen preparing quality meals, or you just want to try something new, Flourish personal chef services are perfect for you.



Menus are based on your specific tastes and preferences. Chef Sarah will do all the shopping, and prepare your meals for the week. You come home, or back to your vacation home after a day of skiing to the wonderful smells of home-cooked food. Various weekly meal plans available to accommodate your needs and budget.

Whether you are planning a dinner party or intimate meal for two, Chef Sarah offers top level personalized chef services. Renting a vacation home? Chef Sarah can prepare your daily meals or an elegant dinner menu. Perfect for holiday celebrations. Let Sarah do all the cooking!

Chef Sarah Mandell

Chef Sarah Mandell has been providing personal chef services in Montrose and Telluride since Januray 2007. She has catered dinner parties for large and small groups, as well as preparing daily meals for both residents and those vacationing in the area. Chef Sarah teaches both group and individual cooking classes. Her background and experience allow her to cater to the most discerning tastes. Her versatile menus satisfy both the avid meat eaters and the vegan and vegetarian crowd and everyone in between.

Prior to moving to Colorado, Chef Sarah worked as a personal chef for three in Los Angeles, California while also conducting one-on-one classes and coaching clients who had particular health goals, including overall diet/lifestyle changes.

Chef Sarah Mandell with one of her delicious culinary creations!

Chef Sarah attended the School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, Colorado, where she completed the intensive professional course including personal chef training. In addition, she worked with one of LA's top raw living foods chefs, Matt Amsden of RawVolution. Chef Sarah also trained at San Francisco's premier gourmet vegan restaurant, Millennium. As a result of her experience and continual study, she incorporates elements of macrobiotic philosophies and ingredients, raw living cuisine and a variety of ethnic flavors and styles to create balanced, highly nutritional meals.

Although Chef Sarah has vast experience with vegetarian, vegan and raw living cuisine, she is also well-versed in a variety of foods including meat, poultry, dairy, fish and seafood, all of which are worked into her menu selections.

Contact Chef Sarah of Flourish today for your Personal Chef, Catering and Cooking Class needs!



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Chefs with a Social Conscious: Eclectic Soul, LLC

As a consumer, I often research how a company does business, including their commitment to the community around them, the community at large, and their philanthropic achievements. I often choose do to business with a certain company over another based off of this viewpoint.


I am proud to say that I have seen in many of the Jet-Chef members that the Personal Chefs and Caterers also give back to the community around them. One such Personal Chef is Leslie Woodward of Eclectic Soul, LLC, based in New York City. You can also find her Eclectic Soul listing on Jet-Chef.com.


In her own words, from the Eclectic Soul website: "Eclectic Soul LLC is a multi-tiered social organization founded by Leslie Woodward. Through the organization, Leslie will use her culinary and nutritional expertise to target the health disparities in communities of color, while creating resources to reduce hunger in South Africa. Programs will be developed in South Africa to support local farms in providing produce and creating meal and grocery services for those that are in outlying, underserved communities.

The goal is to make whole foods available and accessible in underserved communities, both locally and abroad. The Eclectic Soul organization will use a portion of Leslie's profits to support local cooking classes in high schools throughout the New York area. The classes will educate youth on the importance of eating whole and nutrient dense diets to eliminate nutrient deficient diseases.

Leslie's goals for Eclectic Soul are already underway. In June she traveled to South Africa to establish relationships and gather ideas and resources. In addition, through her work with the Food & Finance High School in lower Manhattan, she has laid the groundwork for a successful after-school program. When partnering with Leslie for your next social event, or nutrition plan, you will be helping her give back to these deserved communities."

Chef Leslie's philosophy is simple: “I believe in using the freshest and finest ingredients available within season — quality is of the utmost importance. I am dedicated to providing the most creative, delicious, healthy food and increasing the availability and accessibility of healthier options within various communities.”

Chef Leslie also has a very holistic manner in her Personal Chef Services with a focus on nutrition and wellness. Her website states that: "Comprehensive nutritional programs are customized to meet individual health needs and concerns. The primary focus is on preventive health care, and how to choose the right kinds of foods and nutritional supplements to support and heal the body. The program will put you on the path to obtaining optimum health!"

And the Eclectic Soul menu options to help you achieve such goals are mouth-watering just to read! Just a snapshot of one menu for cocktail parties or appetizers:

• pulled bbq pork on cornbread blini with sautéed collard greens & leeks
• eight cheese macaroni & cheese on baguette toast
• fried green tomato lollipops & fried okra lollipops with remoulade sauce
• plantain chips topped with rice & peas, curried lamb, & micro greens
• plantain chips with black-eyed pea salsa
• deviled quail eggs on rye with boursin
• fried chicken drumettes with curried gravy dipping sauce

So, when work with Chef Leslie with Eclectic Soul, you not only get fantastic and healthy food options, you are also helping her to give back to her immediate community, and the global community. What an amazing way to help yourself and help others!

You can contact Chef Leslie at the Eclectic Soul, LLC website or via email at leslie@dinewithleslie.com. Please let her know that you saw her on Jet-Chef.com!!!