Alicia Wilson Rivero, Chef

tiendauravida@gmail.com

Cell phone: 415.114.6071

Alicia Wilson Rivero is the owner of both the Pura Vida Store and the Cooking School at the LifePath Center. She shares in a global mission to create and offer healthy, delicious food using locally harvested, fresh and organic products. She develops menus and provides meals for LifePath retreat guests interested in following a special menu plan. Raw food, vegans, wheat-free diets are among the diets she can cater to.

Alicia has spent her 40 years working, playing and pursuing her passions in two fields, cooking and teaching. She studied pastry and baking at the Culinary Institute of America and apprenticed for years with Master Chef Felipe Rojas Lombardi. She completed a Master’s degree in early childhood education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She went on to work in under-resourced, urban school systems establishing classroom libraries, and became a 2nd grade classroom teacher in her last years in New York City.

After moving to San Miguel in 2005, she returned to the culinary arts and now indulges daily in San Miguel’s abundant market for fresh and artisan foods. The Cooking School fuses her professional expertise as an educator with her deepest passion – food.

Testimonials

Thank you for the delicious, holistic meals you and your assistants prepared for us everyday. You have a clear style of communication that is engaging; the outcomes were delicious. It was really a stimulating experience for me. BTW the cooking class was huge to my peeps, they love talking about it, so thanks for giving it. My girlfriends are acting like I took a class with  Julia Childs in France, so I am loving their attitude. Hope the rest of your year is healthy and prosperous and that your holistic cooking becomes the way we cook in the future. - Lorenza Felton

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