Keeping it green and healthy with Chef Mo

Maureen Cox, known professionally as Chef Mo, is dedicated to living and sharing a healthy life style through conscious cooking. The kitchen is her studio. Organic, GMO-free, nutrient-dense foods are her palette. Tasty morsels of vegetables, tonics and elixirs of exotic origins, savory sweet gluten free breads grace her menus. Becoming part of Mo’s world as a client gives you a seat at an abundant table of healing foods. Creating meals filled with vitality and flavor is her specialty. One of the elements that inform her food preparation is her commitment to meditation. As a self-taught personal chef she loves melding healthy cooking with the Mindful practice of Presence. Mo cooks with a purposeful, open, present-state awareness that she finds expands her senses of smell and taste, heightens her enjoyment of the process and infuses the food with a beneficial aliveness. Just as research shows that water is changed by thought patterns, food prepared with love and conscious awareness possess these same qualities. With ten years of meditative movement as part of her self-expression, her kitchen is a place she dances with joy. Mo’s avid pursuit of knowledge about nutrition is fed by extensive ongoing research into the latest sustainable growing practices and the use of herbs and spices to increase the health value in foods. Her specialty is addressing specific dietary challenges for her clients, grounded in her passion for finding nutritional solutions for ideal health. Available as a personal in-home chef, Mo also offers her foods to the community with a weekly menu via email to a group of local patrons.

Using organic, fresh ingredients she home-cooks vegetarian, GMO-free nutrient dense foods with purpose - foods that can create a feeling of happiness, open energy centers in our bodies, or have a calming effect. Fermented foods round out her repertoire. A proponent of farm-to-table practices, she carefully selects much of her ingredients from Southern California farmers markets, focusing on seasonal, locally grown foods. Her philosophy? “We are what we eat so the ingredients we use, along with our state of mind in the act of preparation, creates the reflection of wholesome health inside and out.” Offerings and fees:

• Personal in-home chef services include menu creation, shopping, food prep, cooking and cleanup – Per hour

o optional serving Information and fees upon request:

• Personal support for detoxing/cleanses, special dietary restructuring to address health crises and chronic conditions

• Classes, parties, workshops, other special events such as organic, healthy happy hour and tonic/elixir/aphrodisiac soirees

• Weekly menus via email signup Personal History Maureen’s ancestry includes parents from Louisiana, a place of inspiration for spicy foods, eclectic tastes and colorful music and art. Her mother who was a registered nurse exposed her early on to the medical and healing profession. Maureen also spent several years working in the medical field during which time she starting exploring the mind body connection. Her training includes textile and graphic design, intuitive movement and visual arts. A practicing artist and dancer, her exploration of freeform movement and ecstatic dance led her to the world of energy medicine and Reiki. Maureen became a practitioner of the Tummo school of Reiki. Cooking became an extension of her commitment to healing. In 2009, she became Chef Mo and started cooking for clients in their home, teaching classes, and began offering her weekly menu service in 2012. A resident of a Woodland Hills, she shares her mini-farm complete with laying hens and organic gardens with her gardener and artist husband, Thomas.