Home Cooking Consultant
Chef Lia is a Certified Personal Chef and Founder of Home Cooking Consultant. She received her certification through the United States Personal Chef Association and trained as a Professional Personal Chef through the Culinary Business Academy. Her love of cooking for others began at 8 years old. She has been in the kitchen creating culinary delights ever since. Being raised by an Italian grandfather who was the head salesperson for Progresso Foods, Lia has had much practice with fine Italian ingredients and spent many Sundays and holidays preparing family dinners. Lia’s passion for good food, healthy family meals, and sharing her knowledge of cooking techniques with others who love to cook was the main reason for the launch and continued growth of Home Cooking Consultant in 2004.
Before becoming a Personal Chef and Culinary Instructor, Lia had a successful career in Sales for leading voice messaging and telecom companies selling to Wall Street and other Fortune 500 companies. Although the compensation and perks were great, the work was soul-less. Lia decided back in 2001 to step away from Corporate America to pursue her cooking passion.
Chef Lia is the proud recipient of the 2009 Recipe of the Year Award from the United States Personal Chef Association. She has also been featured in Newsday, Chef Educator Magazine and has had recipes and articles published in Personal Chef and Cook’s Country Magazines and most recently in Country Comforts: Holidays Cookbook which was released in October, 2010. She has developed recipes for GildedFork.com and has also taught cooking classes at the Viking Cooking School in Garden City, NY. She is a founding member of the Personal Chefs Cooperative and is a member of Women Chefs & Restauranteurs. She was also an active member of the USPCA Lia was a Chef-to-Chef peer coach and was also the Vice President of the NY Metro Chapter in 2009 and Media Director from 2005 – 2009.
When Lia is not cooking she enjoys boating, camping, sewing, singing and attending music performances and fiddling with her website, internet marketing and public relations. She also enjoys mentoring others on marketing strategies for their businesses or job searches.
