Renee's love for cooking began at a young age where you would often find her whipping up homemade cookies for the week or flipping pancakes for her siblings on a Sunday morning. What started out as a love of baking grew into exploring how to create delicious meals relying on whole foods, fresh produce, and clean ingredients that both delight the senses and nourish the body. While her career took her in another direction - recruiting - volunteering on a weekly basis for eleven years at her children's school hot lunch program kept her feet in the kitchen and her heart engaged with children in the community. Imparting the values of healthy eating, good nutrition, and showing how simple choices around food can positively impact one's physical and mental well being is an important and exciting message to be empowering our youth with. When not in the kitchen, researching recipes, or studying up on health and wellness topics, you can find Renee hiking the open space of Marin County and spending time with her husband and two adult children