About Our Family
The community at A Fork Full of Earth includes a number of creative and talented culinary artists. The project is lead by Angela Karegeannes, a Bay Area resident who also spends her time working for the Ecological Farming Association as an events coordinator for the Eco-Farm Conference and the Hoes Down Harvest Festival .
About Angela
Angela became a chef while living and working at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in 2001. After working in restaurants as a teenager and cooking eagerly for friends in college, the decision to work in the kitchen as trade for room and board at Esalen was an easy choice for her. With Esalen’s garden and farm providing a large portion of the produce for the kitchen, Angela quickly became addicted to the joy that is undeniably linked to working with food that is seeded, grown and harvested with love and then fed to people only hours later. Thus began her involvement with the SloFood Movement and the farming communities of California in the pursuit to understand more about how produce grown in good soil, prepared with a deep understanding of it’s nutritional benefits, and eaten near to its source can change people’s quality of life dramatically.
In 2003, after working at Esalen for a year as a baker and sous chef, Angela began preparing the main courses and writing menus for the kitchen. Her degree in Human Biology from Colorado College offered her a wealth of information to supplement what she was learning in the kitchen about healing foods. In 2005, Angela took her new skills to San Francisco, catering small dinner events and select workshops, spending time learning from others in agricultural endeavors, whose intentions were to complement the spirit of the event with the cuisine. She discovered at that point that catering offers an incredible forum for education.
In 2006, she received her Permaculture Design Certificate and began writing vignettes about deep ecology, sustainable agriculture, food politics and Buddhism as an outlet for interpreting her interest’s common traits: the rare and unrivaled potency of cooperation, the subtle elegance of nature, and the wisdom embedded in the holistic perspective. She’s intrigued that her position as a chef provides her with a platform to facilitate the sustainable agriculture movement, bringing food education to people by virtue of the food on the table.
Recently Angela moved A Fork Full of Earth to San Rafael, CA and she currently works at Marin Academy as a full time chef, sourcing food from local farms for the menus. Evenings and weekends are spent catering events and participating as a guest chef at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center where she is compiling her narratives into an online publication, which will go live in February 2008.
A note from the chef:
“I believe that although what we eat is important, it is just as
critical to be aware of how we eat, why, where and with whom. I
regard the table as a cherished place for communion and healing, a
place to learn time-honored food traditions and to help one
another in riding the tide of fleeting food trends. I am eager to
involve as many people as possible in this incredibly important
agricultural revival.”
— Angela Karegeannes
Contact Information
Email: Angela Karegeannes
Phone: (415) 497-1719
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