Alexandra Jersyk Ricciuti: Green Delicious Cooking Company

Alexandra Ricciuti can’t believe she gets paid to do what she loves every day.

“For me, cooking comes naturally. It is what I love to do and I am at my happiest when I am cooking. When I am finished cooking for my clients, I go home and cook for my family.”

A native of Massachusetts’ North Shore, Alexandra moved to San Francisco at eighteen to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. She had grown up in a family that cooked every day and now she cooked for herself and her friends, experimenting with ingredients found in the city’s farmers markets.

When she returned to Boston, she worked in the entertainment field, including a stint on the management team of rock band Aerosmith’s night club. Missing the creative outlet she had enjoyed in art school, she decided to return to school, this time with the goal of becoming a chef.

Alexandra received her culinary training at Newbury College.  After apprenticing with Chef Roger Babson at the famed Pillar House Restaurant in Newton, Alexandra went on to work with Chefs Todd English and Paige Retus at The Olives Restaurant Group in Boston. During this time, her Plum Pecan Waffle recipe was a first-place winner of the Make It Special with Peaches, Plums and Nectarines Contest, a national Chefs Recipe Contest sponsored by the California Tree Fruit Growers Association.

She went on to become Executive Pastry Chef at Gallia Restaurant in Boston where her work was favorably reviewed by The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Herald.

In addition to a love of food, Alexandra has always harbored an entrepreneurial streak. To this end, she launched Green Delicious Cooking Company in January of 2008. Her business has been warmly received on the North Shore and she maintains a full roster of weekly and biweekly clients, while also cooking for dinner parties and teaching cooking classes.

The number of clients who have been drawn to her service because of health issues or allergy-related dietary restrictions has inspired a stronger focus on nutrition and the health-supportive properties of food. She has begun to partner with health care professionals who send her their clients so she can either cook for them, or teach them to cook for themselves.

Alexandra lives in Beverly, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.

Visit Green Delicious Cooking Company’s website at: www.greendeliciouscooking.com

Visit Alexandra’s blog at: www.cookingforthepeople.com