Chef Suzan "Z" Gray, ServSafe® Certified NRAEF
Chef Z + Creativity + Passion = AWESOME FOOD!
Chef Suzan "Z" Gray is incurably passionate about FOOD!
Chef Gray has received ServSafe® Certification through NRAEF
(NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION).
SPECIALIZING IN THE USE OF ORGANICS and CUISINE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET!
Cuisine specially designed to fit restrictive diets, raw food diets, and vegan/vegetarian diets are also a specialty of Chef Z
Chef Suzan “Z” Gray
….healthy food artfully presented.
Chef Z, as she is known to her clients and culinary students, began her food career utilizing the creative act of writing, as a segue from her professional art career in California in the 1980’s and 90’s. And so she began her second career in the food service industry, and was initially commissioned by the Monterey County Post in Carmel, CA to write a monthly food column as a stimulus for the minds and palates of their readership. Her column, entitled "What's Cooking at the Casa?" soon morphed into a weekly column, due to instant popularity.
It was at this time that her incurable passion for healthy food and the creative way in which it can be envisioned and manifested began to take root in her heart and mind and whispered alluringly in her ear. Onward and eastward, Chef Z relocated to Richmond, Virginia in 1997 and taught cooking and baking, in tandem with her sister Melissa Gray, Pastry Chef, at the Compleat Gourmet in Richmond's famed Carytown area. As well, the newspaper column that had thrown her into food writing in California had now transformed itself into a self-published newsletter of the same title, distributed as hard copy to anxious subscribers around the country.
It was at this time that her incurable passion for healthy food and the creative way in which it can be envisioned and manifested began to take root in her heart and mind and whispered alluringly in her ear. Onward and eastward, Chef Z relocated from Carmel, California to Richmond, Virginia in 1997 and taught cooking and baking in tandem with her sister, Pastry Chef Melissa Gray, at the Compleat Gourmet in Richmond's famed Carytown area.
Having picked back up with her writing, she has written for several years for a local gourmet paper in Charlottesville, VA called IN THE KITCHEN, Chef Z also develops and writes customized recipes for her cooking students and is also in the process of writing her memoirs, cleverly disguised as a cookbook based on her unique experiences in the food industry. Simultaneously, she is beginning a new project as co-author for a book on the healing essence of foods with a naturpathic doctor.
Chef Z teaches privately, consults with forward thinking food establishments that offer organic and healthy products to their clientele, writes passionately about the subject of food, and offers private chef services for her "clients du jour."
Chef Z is in essence and intention, completely and utterly consumed with the thought of healthy food as a lifestyle, to be enjoyed and applied as an everyday component of becoming and remaining healthy.
...Buon appetito! Chef Z
Chef Z has written nationally for Chicago based
LIVING WITHOUT magazine,
focused on assisting
and educating those with food allergies.
this website was designed and created by Chef Z