The Yam & Bean, Fine Local Food Events

The Free Spirit Kitchen, located in Santa Cruz, CA, offers a personalized culinary experience through its personal chef services, catering, and cooking classes. With a focus on fresh ingredients and customized menu options, clients can enjoy delicious meals prepared in their homes or delivered directly to them. In addition to meal prep and catering for private dinners and corporate events, The Free Spirit Kitchen also provides in-person and virtual cooking classes, as well as appliance demonstrations featuring Sub Zero Wolf products. This service is designed to give clients the gift of time while savoring the pleasures of real food. Generated from the website

HistoryChef Zachary has been cooking in the fine dining since 2005, working primarily in catering. Since living in Santa Cruz, he has worked as the administrator for Bauman College of Nutrition, and was the chef for both the LionFish SupperClub, a fine ding caterer, as well as the restaurant Ulterior, an upscale bistro in downtown Santa Cruz that specialized in local, seasonal, organic and gluten free food. When the restaurant closed its door in June, Zachary set out to travel the world and educate himself on the cultures from whom we inherit or food and our food customs. Thus The Food Bender was born of a passion to pull from life the very essence of what makes us zen-out with delight when we take that ecstatic bite.SpecialtiesChef Zachary Mazi is a private chef, specializing in Retreats and catering. His background includes Food Is Medicine certification, as well as knowledge of special diets, local food sourcing, and researching and promoting local customs and cultures whwrever The Food Bender travels. And no distance is too far. Have a retreat in Morocco that you need catered? Look no further! Our food will bend your guests minds around what is possible in this global foodie community, and nourish every part of the body with our offerings.