With food we can find your way to better health and vitality.
Matilda Tompson, Personal Chef & Food Coach
I hope to help people discover delicious, nutritious living through savoring wellness.
Through coaching and cooking, my goal is to help others live their lives fully by savoring wellness.
My lifelong love of cooking, gardening and exploration of living life to the fullest drove me to acquire a health coaching certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
The connection between food and wellness is a personal one for me. Due to chronic digestive, weight and sleep issues, the naturopath I was working with requested I radically change my diet and lifestyle. After my initial resistance, the creative challenge kicked in. This is an ongoing process and I feel and look better than I have in years.
I grew up playing in my Dad’s garden in Wilmington, Delaware. Then started cooking with the greens, beans, and tomatoes grown, with my Mom. After 19 years of suburban living and a short stint in college, I drove a friend’s car to her in New Orleans and never looked back. After three days of new flavors and sights, I got offered a job cooking for a public kitchen on Burbon Street. This Southern adventure led me to travel with a friend across the U.S. Returning East and setting in rural Pennsylvania I started a career as an artist, training in weaving and pottery. After years of successfully running my own pottery studio, my travel companions from New Orleans invited me to visit Hawaii.
In January1981, I got off the plane at the Kona airport and the salty warm air felt like home. Since then, Hawai`i’s been my home and I’ve been a ginger farmer in South Kona, peanut sauce apprentice in Bali, and moved a household across mountains (via donkey) in Columbia. Most recently, I’ve worked in the Waimea community to build and grow local nonprofits. I am currently Board President of M āla`ai Garden, the culinary learning garden at Waimea Middle School.
Throughout all of the adventures of my life, I have been amazed by the power of food to connect people and foster wellness.
