Chef Lisa Books-Williams has been sharing the joy of plant-based
eating with the SF Bay Area for the last nine years. Lisa has released more than 100 lbs and regained her vitality through healthy eating. She is the reigning Vegan Iron Chef (San Francisco, 2013),an award-winning raw food chef (Best of Raw NYC 2010) and a certified Green Chef Instructor. Lisa founded the Tri-Valley Vegetarian Society and hosts regular potlucks, supper clubs and events. Lisa is a popular presenter, contributor, chef and educator and is a featured
chef/presenter on eHow. She presented at and catered the raw vegan dinner at the SFVS World Vegetarian Day festivals in 2010 and 2011.She personal chefs, teaches 1:1 and small groups privately and caters. She plans to release her first cook and un-cook book in 2014.
Lisa co-developed the Plant-Based Diet program for Kaiser Permanente and currently teaches plant-based cooking and Food Preparation classes at the Redwood City Campus. She has taught Kaiser employees and physicians at the Oakland, Daly City, Campbell, Fremont and South San Francisco campuses. She has taught patients and staff at the VA Livermore, VA Menlo Park, Herrick and Laguna Honda Hospitals how to prepare health promoting vegan foods. She was asked to guest chef at the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico this Summer and will be a Keynote Speaker at the California Parks and Recreation Society Conference in March.
Additionally, as a nationally Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist, she consults at Care Facilities throughout the Bay Area and brings therapeutic vegan cooking classes and raw/”live” food preparation classes to persons with disabilities in institutionalized care.
