A Sensational Creation

About the Chef

Angie Needels, Certified Natural Chef is a graduate of Bauman College in Berkeley, California. Bauman College is a Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts School offering nutrition-based programs deep-rooted in the use of natural, organic, whole foods. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, Angie has rediscovered a love of food and nutrition which she is excited to share through the art of flavorful healing.

A Sensational Creation is a personal chef business that brings Angie’s creative energy to the nurturing and healing touch of cooking with natural foods. Angie offers clients one-on-one attention, both cooking for them and teaching them how to craft nutritious meals for themselves which they can then pass on to friends and family. A Sensational Creation focuses on women in all phases of pregnancy: preparation, prenatal, postnatal breastfeeding, and early childhood development. Pregnancy in itself is a sensational creation and requires a great deal of change in diet to accommodate a healthy growing baby. Helping these families will contribute to long-lasting, nurturing eating habits for both parents and children. This mentality can only blossom through circles of friends, family and future generations.

Even before completing her professional chef degree, Angie started working with clients to outline prenatal personal chef services, and has started collaborating with yoga instructors, acupuncturists, mother’s groups and local writers for providing supplemental services. Her love of creating imaginative seasonal whole foods recipes has been shared through round-table discussions which she plans on expanding into informative newsletters and cookbooks. She also worked in Three Stone Hearth, a community supported kitchen in Berkeley, California.

Angie graduated from Bauman College in August 2008 as a Certified Natural Chef.

Before beginning natural chef school, Angie gained ten years experience in administrative support and office management for the insurance and engineering industries, most recently with Delta Dental of California. She attended the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, majoring in fine art sculpture and illustration which she continued to practice while working. She has created original art for over ten years and participated in over a dozen solo and group fine art shows in Columbus Ohio and the San Francisco Bay Area, and has assisted in curating the Madlab Theatre art gallery in Columbus Ohio. She also provided art direction, sculpture, painting, illustration, photography, and graphic design services for four fine art storybooks released by Omnibucket, a small-press publishing company. She is now a partner of deadbeatsister, a screenprinting business which creates and sells original designs through local stores and indie marts. Angie is excited to combine her business experience with her constant creative spark to make the culinary arts a truly sensational creation…using all five senses, naturally.