Test Kitchen

Meet Our Chefs

Chelan Fresh Executive Chef Joseph A. Nagy

Age: 38
School: Western Culinary 1999 Portland Oregon Training under Surge Roche Vermont.
Work Experiences:
Executive Chef Lou Lou Restaurant Brooklyn N.Y.
Executive Chef H20 Martini Bar Restaurant at Portland, Oregon
Executive Chef Vin Du Lac Winery at Chelan, Washington
Owner Maki Sushi at Chelan, Washington

Chef Meg

Meg is an educator, recipe developer and lifelong foodie based out of Lake Chelan, Washington with her husband and three dogs. Meg has years of experience working in many aspects of the food industry, including her own artisan bakery, but it wasn’t until she started experiencing her own health issues that she decided to focus on the healing powers of whole, plant based foods. After completeing her plant-based culinary training with Rouxbe Cooking School, Meg started The Evolving Plate and began teaching people how to transform their health through their diet. Through social media, hands on classes and recipe development Meg continues to show people how easy and accessible eating for wellness can be. WhenMeg does take a break from cooking you can find her teaching a Zumba Fitness class or kicking up her heels in a salsa class with her husband.

To find out more, check out www.TheEvolvingPlate.com

Registered Dietitian McKenzie

McKenzie Hall is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, writer, speaker and nutrition spokesperson focused on helping others develop a positive relationship with food and their bodies. With her business partner, Lisa Samuel, McKenzie co-founded Nourish RDs, a nutrition communications and consulting company. Together, they partner with other like-mind food, health, and PR companies, health professionals, and commodity boards to educate others about the value in developing maintainable and sustainable habits to achieve health, happiness and balanced living. Basked in the greater Los Angeles area, she provides individual and group nutritional counseling, grocery store tours, nutrition workshops, and cooking classes. McKenzie is also a contributing editor for the award winning publication, Environmental Nutrition, and her numerous other articles can be found in publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Today’s Dietitian, The Daily Press, The Morning Call, Buffalo News, OR Today, The Santa Clarita Valley’s Signal Healthy & Family Guide, and more. McKenzie graduated magna cum laude from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo with a degree in Food Science and Nutrition and completed her Dietetic Internship at Bastyr University in Seattle. In addition to following her own “non-diet” advice, McKenzie loves discovering new hiking trails (in both California and back home in Alberta, Canada), camping the local food at her favorite farmer’s markets, and baking in her sunny California kitchen.

McKenzie and Lisa love connecting with the online community through social media networks. You can find them blogging at www.nourishRDs.com, and tweeting, Pinning, Instagramming, and Facebooking too!