Chef Bio

Former Cook at The Ecology Center & Chez Panisse

The opportunity to become a cook reconnected Ryan to an intuition about food that he believes we all have, but are often separated from. Cooking at Chez Panisse and on farms has taught him how to use and trust his senses.

He views feeding people as both an incredible privilege and responsibility. Delicious food is essential but not sufficient, and how you get there matters. Cooks decide what types of food to source, where it comes from, and what practices they support. Nourishing, well-sourced food can reconnect humans to the rest of nature and their own bodies.

He is incredibly grateful to have spent most of his culinary career with access to wonderful ingredients, and is admittedly stubborn about pursuing a world where everyone has this right.

Ryan's full-time cooking career was brief, and he feels lucky to continue to be surrounded by amazing chefs through Climate Farm School and occasionally play the role of Climate Farm School chef when someone else is leading a course.

He loves teaching others what he knows and showing that good food can be extremely simple.