a private chef experience
weekly meals. designed for you.
Portland,Oregon
how it works.
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Place An Order
Place your order by Saturday at Midnight to ensure a Tuesday delivery. This allows Chef Luca just enough time to order and prepare your meals while maintaining a Zero Waste approach.
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Wait Patiently.
It is a virtue, after all! While you wait patiently, Chef Luca will be preparing your meals from scratch and packaging individual elements to create an at-home private chef experience.
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Prepare To Cook.
Mentally. All the physical work is done! All you have to do is follow my instructions. Most meals take 10-20 minutes to prepare (with some exceptions). All you have to do is enjoy the fun part of cooking.
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Enjoy.
Enjoy the time spent in the kitchen. Enjoy the delicious food we prepared. Enjoy the company which you share with. You deserve it.
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Creator & Chef
From a young age, I was drawn to the relationship between food & culture. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I spent my youth devouring Mission-style burritos, exploring Boba bars & my own ancestral heritage. I graduated from the University of Oregon in 2014 with degrees in Political Science & Business. My studies focused on political philosophy, business & environmental sustainability have been the catalyst for my culinary curiosity.
I then learned my trade by working within the industry. I worked stints at esteemed Portland establishments Veritable Quandary & St. Honoré Patisserie before settling in at a North Portland neighborhood cafe Sweedeedee where I quickly aligned creatively and philosophically. Over the next 4 years, I honed my craft and found my love for educating and experimenting with food.
I now have a very diverse work-life as a Chef in Portland, Oregon.
- I teach Cooking Classes at Cookshop where I host public and private classes designed for the home chef.
-I am the owner of Cookwise: part recipe club, part cooking school designed to inspire, educate and empower you to gain control of your own kitchen.
-Catering director at Proletariat Butchery where I cook over open fire & run a monthly pop-up called ‘Butcher’s Burger’.
-Lastly, I am the Creator & Chef of Squirrel Meals PDX, a local meal prep service where I make 3 meals a week in an effort to be a solution for the ‘midweek meal’ problem.
I vow to continue to explore the culinary world while maintaining the connection between the Chef, the consumer, and the environment that surrounds us.
