Chef Bev

🥕Whole Food Plant Based/Vegan Food Enthusiast🗓️ Director of Events, Willowdale Farm & Gardens

Change your mind, change your life!

Chef Bev believes in using food as medicine to reclaim health and vitality. But eating differently starts with thinking differently. By opening your mind to new ways of being, you can lose weight and heal your body from chronic illnesses like diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

Cooking Demonstrations

Show and Tell

Chef Bev conducts demonstrations at events within the community, including the YMCA and Willowdale Urban Farm, showing just how easy and delicious plant-based food can be.

Speaking Engagements

Sharing is Caring

Chef Bev speaks at special events, sharing the story of how she personally lost 145 pounds by cutting out processed and animal foods from her diet.

Cooking Classes

Let's do this together

Want to learn how to cook healthy plant based food, but unsure where to start? Chef Bev has you covered. Arrange an in-person or virtual class for yourself or a group to learn the ropes.

Chef Bev hosting kindergarten students from Peace Rose Montessori for a cooking class

Chef Bev teaching her granddaughter how to cook

Chef Bev and her granddaughter at Willowdale Urban Farm

Food Philosophy

You are what you eat, so you had better be putting the good stuff into your body. God only gave you one vessel. He also provides us with a myriad of amazing plant foods to fill it with. Change is hard, but your life and your health are well worth the effort. You can either pay now, or pay the doctor later. The choice is yours.

About Chef Bev

Chef Beverly Williams earned her degree in Culinary Management. She has more than 30 years of food industry experience, including working as Head Chef and Kitchen Supervisor at various restaurants including Houlihan's, The Warner Center, and the Double Tree hotel in Pittsburgh, PA. She has also been a restaurant manager at Red Lobster and Marriott hotel.

Back in 2016 Chef Bev found herself weighing in at over 300 pounds and riddled with chronic conditions, including pre-diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. But after switching to a whole food diet and later going fully plant based, Chef Bev was able to lose 145 pounds and get her blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol numbers back into a normal range.Kathleen, Chef Bev's late mother (pictured below), suffered from diabetes for nearly 40 years. Bev removed all processed foods from her diet. And after injecting herself daily for four decades, her mother's doctor could no longer detect diabetes in her system and took her off insulin completely.