Our instructors

Jennifer Adler, M.S., C.N.
Jennifer Adler, M.S., C.N., holds a master’s degree from Bastyr University. She has a mind-body approach to nutrition, integrating her training in Ayurveda and spirituality, health and medicine. She ...
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Iole Aguero
Iole Aguero credits her love affair with fine Italian cooking to the teachings of her mother in her homeland of southern Italy. After 25 years of refining her cooking techniques in the United States ...
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Shauna James Ahern
Shauna James Ahern has loved food all her life. In May of 2005, she was diagnosed with celiac disease, a fate which she joyfully embraced. Since going gluten-free, she has started a successful Web ...
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Heather Andersen
Heather Andersen is a chef at Chaco Canyon Café in Seattle. Her journey toward becoming a chef began by cooking in her home kitchen and learning and sharing information with others online. She had ...
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Birgitte Antonsen, N.T.P.
Birgitte Antonsen, N.T.P., is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute and is a nutritional therapy practitioner in Washington state. Birgitte is also certified in Denmark as a practitioner of ...
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Lee Baker
Lee Baker’s passion for cooking began at an early age while helping her grandmother prepare the delicious homemade meals for their family-owned Okemo Lantern Lodge. She graduated from the Culinary ...
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Lois Blanford
Lois Blanford has been a chef at the Chaco Canyon Café since its inception in 2003. Without any formal raw foods training, she has used her extensive culinary knowledge to create a highly successful ...
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Anne Bly
Anne Bly learned the joys of cooking for a crowd from being raised in a family that had monthly dinners where all were expected to contribute. Even though she is not formally trained, other than a ...
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Carlie Bockelman
Carlie Bockelman’s interest for vegetables and seasonal cooking sprouted while growing up on a farm in Fall City. Her eclectic cuisine taste has blossomed through frequent entertaining and ...
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Goldie Caughlan
Goldie Caughlan, PCC’s Nutrition Education Manager, founded the FoodWorks program (now PCC Cooks) in 1983. Goldie writes, does staff training and consulting, and teaches the Walk, Talk and Taste ...
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Christina Chung
Christina Chung was born and raised in Hong Kong, where she learned to cook from her grandparents. She studied Japanese cooking in Tokyo, and French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu, Japan. She also took ...
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Rita Condon
Rita Condon is a graduate of Bastyr University with a degree in nutrition, and has worked at PCC since 1990. She has a passionate interest in natural foods and has been a vegetarian for 24 years. She’...
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Jeff Cox
Jeff Cox’s enological epiphany occurred with a bottle of Côtes du Rhône on the walls surrounding Avignon, France. With more than 20 years in the wine and food business, seeking wines with character, ...
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George de Pasquale
George de Pasquale is the founder and head baker at the Essential Baking Company in Seattle. He believes that bread is one of the true joys of life and he is inspired by beautiful, richly colored, ...
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Marie Donadio
Marie Donadio is known to friends and family as the Soup Queen. She is excited to share her new selection of cold-weather soups and plenty of cooking and kitchen information. Marie believes that ...
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Lisa Dupar
Lisa Dupar found her passion for food in her family’s kitchen in Atlanta, Ga., then followed her dream and apprenticed at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. She traveled in Switzerland and cooked in ...
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Seppo Farrey
Seppo Farrey is a culinary instructor, personal chef and author with more than 25 years’ experience in the culinary field, and a background in nutrition science. His cookbook, “3 Bowls: Vegetarian ...
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Krista Fay
Krista Fay is a Northwest native who was born in Seattle and studied English literature at Whitman College. She is a passionate organic gardener and a dedicated rower, competing nationally with ...
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Sureyya Gokeri
Sureyya Gokeri is from Turkey, close to the Syrian border on the coast, where the food is a blend of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern styles. She loves the richness and uniqueness of her culture and ...
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Ronit Gourarie, M.S.
Ronit Gourarie has been making bread her whole life and has been teaching breadmaking at PCC since 2002. She holds a master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University. She has a passion for ...
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Alicia Guy
Alicia Guy has been working for PCC since 1997. With two young children, she is always practicing inviting and fun ways to introduce healthful foods into family meal-times. She feels that early ...
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Pranee Halvorsen
Pranee Halvorsen learned to cook from her mother and grandmother in Phuket, Thailand. When she came to Seattle, she brought her mortar and pestle and began cooking for friends. She is now a member of ...
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Lisa Harvey
Lisa Harvey, a graduate of Bastyr University’s nutrition program, is a clinical dietitian at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center. Lisa’s two passions in life are being a mom and enjoying ...
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Jenny Hurst
Jenny Hurst trained as a personal chef at The School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, Colo.  Her passions include exploring new places, being outdoors and sampling fun foods along the way. One of her ...
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Monique Jong
Monique Jong is of Chinese heritage and was raised in Suriname, South America. She was exposed to many cuisines early on, bringing diversity to her culinary experience. She studied therapeutic ...
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Trina Kaufman
Trina Kaufman is a graduate student in nutrition and psychology at Bastyr University. Her passions include art, yoga, guitar, travel, playing in the woods, and cooking with fresh foods that nourish ...
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Kanako Koizumi
Kanako Koizumi is from Akita in northern Japan. She started cooking when she was in the third grade to help her working mother. She is a caterer and personal chef who has a passion for food and loves ...
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Dawnula Koukol
Dawnula Koukol realized her connection and passion for food at a very early age while growing up on a ranch in rural Montana. She enjoyed working with her mother in the garden as well as baking ...
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Karen Lamphere, M.S., C.N.
Karen Lamphere, M.S., C.N., holds a master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University and is passionate about whole, natural foods. Karen believes that good nutrition is the foundation for optimal ...
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Fernanda Larson
Fernanda Larson is a holistic nutrition counselor and natural foods chef. Born and raised in Brazil to an Italian family of bakers, winemakers and restaurateurs, culinary experimentation is ingrained ...
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Julianne Stutzman Mai
Julianne Stutzman Mai has been a health-promoting, whole foods enthusiast for many years and has a wide range of knowledge and experience as a registered nurse as well as a massage therapist. She ...
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Hai En Mai
Hai En Mai has been practicing and teaching the macrobiotic diet and Chinese nutritional therapies for healing and prevention for several years. He studied macrobiotics at the Kushi Institute and has ...
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Julie Negrin, M.S.
Julie Negrin, M.S., is a certified nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to cook their way to better health. A graduate of Bastyr University and the former director of culinary arts at ...
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Lisa Palmatier
Lisa Palmatier has been teaching for 15 years, and is constantly surprised by the imagination of children and their eagerness to learn new things. Cooking whole foods and living a healthy lifestyle ...
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Hanna Petros
Hanna Petros discovered a passion for cooking from her mother while growing up in Ethiopia. Her joy in cooking is also influenced by her extensive travel around Africa, America, Europe, Scandinavia ...
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Tiffany Pollard
Tiffany Pollard is a Bastyr University graduate who has studied the energetic and healing properties of foods for years. In her practice, she encourages her patients to let food act as healing ...
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Mitchell Pumpian
Mitchell Pumpian began cooking in 1978 with homestyle and vegetarian foods. Over the past 25 years, he has worked in many restaurants, including the world-renowned Spago in West Hollywood, Calif., ...
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Jayesh Rao
Jayesh Rao was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and grew up in an Indian household. This unusual background was the basis of his culinary training and allowed him to become adventurous with all forms of ...
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Omid Roustaei, M.A.
Omid Roustaei, M.A., is a psychotherapist, culinary instructor and yoga teacher. He holds a master’s degree from Bastyr University and is a faculty member at the School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, ...
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Becky Selengut
Becky Selengut is a graduate of the Seattle Culinary Academy. She started her career cooking at PCC. She has taught cooking and worked on PBS cooking shows, at the Herbfarm restaurant and La Spiga. ...
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Adam Stevenson
Adam Stevenson, from New Mexico, attended Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Ore. In Seattle, he has worked at the Cliff House Restaurant in Browns Point and Tulio Ristorante, where he was ...
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Lynne Vea
Lynne Vea is a graduate of the Executive Chef Program at Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. She has been in the restaurant and catering industry for more than 20 years and has worked as an executive chef for ...
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Roxanne Vierra
Roxanne Vierra has traveled through 19 countries, enjoying their varied cuisines and bringing back many exciting food ideas. She loves sharing the gift of food through thoughtful choices, healthy ...
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