Bauman College puts its expertise to work in the community to help solve the hunger and health problem in America. You can help us with your donation to the Eating For Health Institute.
Read more about the Eating For Health Institute Here.
Cyrelle McDonald: Educating the Next Generation about Nutrition
Natural Chef and Nutrition Educator Cyrelle McDonald has started her own program to teach cooking skills and healthy eating habits to children. McDonald finds working with children supremely rewarding, saying, “They’re very excited to try new things, especially because they’re creative.”
Alison Negrin Serves Up Health at John Muir Medical Center
With a total of 640 beds spread over three Contra Costa campuses, John Muir Medical Center (JMMC) does not have quite the power for modeling change that Kaiser has, but its executive chef, Alison Negrin, has moved a small mountain of her own in re-envisioning her hospital’s food program. Her work, like Maring’s, has had some larger repercussions.
Trained at the Culinary Academy in San Francisco in the early 1980s, Negrin found a niche for herself in East Bay restaurants known for serving healthy, organic foods. She worked at Poulet and Chez Panisse and also helped open Bridges in Danville. It was in 2002, after going back to school full-time at Bauman College, a local culinary arts college with a holistic nutrition focus, that she took the job at JMMC.
Her new job presented challenges she hadn’t faced when cooking at the restaurants. Instead of sourcing small amounts of food from local farms, she now worked with such major purveyors as U.S. Foods and Sysco. The challenge was not simply how to feed her patients healthy foods, but also how to obtain those foods..... Read the Full Article, Goodbye, Green Jell-o, in East Bay Edible.
My time at Bauman College was instrumental in the path that I have taken and has given me greater meaning and purpose as a chef.
Diane Sanfilippo is Livin' La Vida!
Nutrition Consultant Diane Sanfilippo of Balanced Bites was interviewed by Jimmy Moore for the March 2, 2011 The Livin' La Vida Low Carb podcast about her career and her motivation to write two diet and health oriented eBooks: "The 21-Day Sugar Detox" and "The Practical Paleo Nutrition Guide Book". Click HERE to listen the interview with Diane.
Kristin Wartman - Nutrition Columnist
Kristin Wartman, M.A., N.E., is the nutrition columnist for Civil Eats where she writes regularly on food, nutrition, and the way the industrial food industry affects our food system and our health. For recipes and more information please see her blog, foodbykristin.
Read her recent article, Big Cheese vs. Real Cheese, on the government cheese bailout and a critical evaluation of legislation in corporate interest.
Maria Balme's Bliss Bakery Opens in Santa Rosa!
Maria Balme, 2002 Natural Chef graduate and current Penngrove Culinary Arts Instructor has opened Sonoma County's first gluten-free bakery. Bliss Bakery is located at 463 Sebastopol Ave in Santa Rosa’s, South A Arts District. Bliss Bakery is open for business Thursday thru Monday from 8am to 3pm. You can contact them at 707.542.6000 or
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Laura Knoff's Book Published by New Harbinger Publications
Check out Natural Chef Jesse Miner as the February 2010 featured entrepreneur for the Personal Chefs Cooperative, a non-profit organization of professional chefs of which he is a founding member.
Join Lauren Lubin, the traveling Natural Chef, in a fun, humorous, lively, informative show that provides all the tools and skills necessary to cook and enjoy quick, gourmet meals with minimal effort. Macrobiotics Minimalized, below, features Bauman College faculty member Lisa Turner.
Visit Minimalist Menu for more great videos and the full scoop on this great project.
Eat 2 Liv from Elizabeth Brown
Natural Chef Elizabeth Brown, AKA "The Kitchen Vixen", teaches us all about Omega-3 fatty acids in this fun pilot of her NEW cooking show Eat 2 Liv. You'll be cooking and eating Healthier in no time!
Note: Bauman College recommends wild salmon in all cases.
Click Here to watch more great videos from Elizabeth.
Our Graduates 
Kristin Wartman, M.A., N.E., is the nutrition columnist for 
