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An Exclusive Article About Chef Marc Felix

The world of the Green Movement encompasses more than recycle, re-use and reduce. It also involves a healthier life-style through consuming foods that reduce the stress on water and land- based resources while enhancing the quality of life for all people on the earth.
World-renowned French Chef Marc Felix created 35 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the cookbook of the vegan Candle Cafe restaurant in New York City, and is also creating and marketing lines of frozen vegan and vegetarian hors d’oeuvres, flavorful burgers and more. He also contributed to the second restaurant opening, Candle 79 as well. This inspired new product line is made with a premium blend of soy, wheat and plant proteins. Chef Felix then adds his distinctive touch with a variety of techniques and spices from around the world, creating delicious, quality alternatives to meat and seafood based cuisine, bringing to the marketplace exciting new healthy choices.
“It isn’t about becoming vegetarian or vegan as a way of life. It is about introducing elements of these lifestyles for better health and more sustainable food sources from the water and the land,” says Chef Felix. “It is about returning to a way of life that was common 100 years ago, and is proving to be very supportable in this century.” Chef Felix not only encourages the return to community gardens, but in the return to the family gardens, or the old “truck garden.”
Chef Marc Felix - Photo by Katherine Bish
Chef Felix likes a good steak or piece of fish as well as any carnivore, but understands that these elements of human diet must be raised and harvested in good conscience. Beef filled with growth hormones and antibiotics, over-milked dairy cattle and fish filled with mercury and petrochemicals are not healthy choices for those who consume them or the environments being destroyed by them.
Gardens are one of the easiest ways to move toward improved health. “Gardening is not difficult,” states Chef Felix. “This past summer I was away from my garden for a long time and it went unattended and it was one of the best gardens I’ve ever had. Everything grew according to it’s own schedule and everything from basil, thyme, rosemary and lavender to tomatoes, all were hearty and full of flavor.”
One of the greatest challenges facing healthcare today is the rate of morbid obesity and increase diagnosis of diabetes in young people. Chef Felix believes that everything from school lunches loaded with high fat, high-carbohydrate, high-sodium and highly processed products to the fast food mentality of nutrition are direct contributors to the dramatic increase of morbidly obese adolescents and young people at higher risk for diabetes, heart disease and other potentially life-threatening health risks.
Chef Felix is not solely concerned with the lack of nutritional ethics and sustainable food sources in our schools but also the executive dining rooms and employee cafeterias of companies large and small. Changes must be made to reduce the healthcare costs of growing obesity among middle-aged employees whose habits continue to put them at higher and higher risks for protracted health problems. Search engine giant Google recently and overnight completely swapped out their candy and soda vending machines for healthy snacks, bottled water and juices. Chef Felix can help any company, large or small change their nutritional commitment to their employees and over the long haul, save money, increase good health reduce healthcare costs and sustain human life on Planet Earth.
Chef Felix is available to provide a variety of services from a lecture series, cooking classes, menu design and even complete meals for eco-occasions in corporations, schools or private homes. Read More...
Raised in the Savoie region of France, Chef Felix is a graduate of the prestigious Le Fontanile Ecole de Cuisine. His resume includes award-winning competitions in France, guest chef at The James Beard House, opening 5-star restaurants, launching three Ritz-Carlton hotels, and a special events chef for Anheuser-Busch Companies. Now, he can be your chef as well!
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