Didi
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Author of three books, founder of four restaurants, Didi cooks original, toothsome food.  Operating as a personal chef and small-event caterer, she likes to cook for health and eco-minded folks. Whether one is gluten free, vegan, or avid eaters of birds and fish, Didi is able to utilize the many flavors of the earth to customize her cooking to her client's needs - using knowledge attained through years of cooking and writing.

PERSONAL CHEF SERVICES

Didi arrives weekly, carrying fresh produce and groceries then prepares up to four dinners for you or your family in a single visit.  Her food is adventuresome, healthy, low-fat, and
planet-friendly. She enjoys clients who are either vegetarians, vegans, or plant-heavy.

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Catering Services

Didi & Co is a small versatile catering company that infuses parties with happiness.  We specialize in imaginative, locally sourced cooking.

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Teaching has played a central role in Didi's life over the last ten years.  She has taught hundreds of children, teens, adults including the elderly, how to lead healthier lives by learning how to cook plant-based foods.

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author

Didi is the author of three books: Wild Flavors; One Chefs Transformative Year at Eva’s Farm, Entertaining for a Veggie Planet, and Vegetarian Planet

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About Didi

Didi first fell for cooking  in the sixth grade. She was making applesauce in home economics class and the smell of apples cooking with butter and cinnamon put her in a foodie trance. This fawned a love for cooking that continues to this day.  She began a catering businessat age 14.  At 16 Didi got a job at an extraordinary cheese shop her hometown. More

Didi's
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Didi's food is healthful and often showered with fresh herbs or imbued with spices.  One of her specialties is creating memorable salads that are filled with legumes, local cheeses, grains, toasted nuts, seeds and herbs.  Didi is happy to accommodate special diets.  If fish or meat is requested, she buys it from reliable sustainable sources.  Didi's aim is to help us and our fellow animals thrive in our world ten and twenty generations from now.