About the Company
Austin Healthy Cooking is a unique store where you can come and visit with real chefs, professional bakers, and people that are fanatical about health, nutrition and great food.
Profile of Chef Roy
Roy Marshall is a classically trained chef who loves to impart his knowledge and love of cooking to everyone.
Chef Roy has built two successful food businesses. One here in Austin, Gourmet Texas Pasta, with 25 varieties of healthy fresh vegetable and herb pasta varieties. And previously in Mesa Arizona, The SalsaKing Fine SouthWestern Foods where he developed over 120 unique products including three National Award winning Championship Salsas. Pepitas y Camarones, the most unique salsa in the world with pumpkin seeds and shrimp; Flaming Green Garlic Passion, packed with oven roasted garlic, tomatillos and Hatch Jalapenos, a Scovie award winner; and Chipotle Black Bean and Corn Salsa that was chosen as the official Salsa of the 2005 International Salsa Festival in California.
Chef Roy's career has been diverse, including his start as a commie in the one of the most successful French Restaurants in Arizona, restaurant manager, Master Craftsman making hand built hardwood furniture, Mill Forman at a large Hardwood Custom Mill facility, award winning ceramicist, manager for AT&T DSL Technical Support, tier 3 Tech Support Technician for Time Warner Cable, Restaurant Reviewer, Entrepreneur with two food manufacturing businesses, and his time spent perfecting his passion while at Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute.
Since the age of 17 Chef Roy has ground his own wheat just before baking his breads fresh to insure it is wholesome and packed with nutrients. Chef Roy has devoted his life to healthy cooking, learning about nutrition and letting people know the dangers of the FDA and adulterated food products. Chef Roy willingly imparts his extensive knowledge about nutrition, herbal health, and poisons in our food supply, just email questions to him to learn the real story. Or better, come into the store for one of his FREE cooking classes and learn some great tricks of the trade, talk about food, learn, eat, laugh, and have fun.
The Crew
- Kim McDaniel, Director of Operations, and, well, the Pasta Pixie. She is short and sweet and has helped the store run smoothly during Chef Roy's many many hospitalizations. She has taken over all wholesale activities and also does some shows where she gets to meet people and learn what it is that they like. She knows the business side of making everything, hires the best people, and goes to shows and talks about our pasta and food in general with everyone that comes to our booth. An integral part of the Austin Healthy Cooking Family, a mother hen to us all, a savior and leader.
- Marla, sales guru, she sells our pasta at many of the shows, she and her husband have tons of ideas to make quick and delightful pasta meals.
- Debbie, Kim's sister in law sells at many shows for us and is a wealth of knowledge. And she knows a lot about pasta too!!!!
- Sean, Kim's husband. Starting selling pasta and now wants to quite is 9 to 5 and do nothing but sell pasta. Hey, who can blame him!
- David Oliverio, my personal trainer, and a personal trainer that is available to those that want to get fit and live a life of health and vitality. We have very similar views on health and diet and he just started selling pasta for me on weekends. By week day, you can get him to be your personal trainer by going to his website at www.DavidOliverio.com
- Elena, Kim's niece, a part time lady that is going to Texas Tech (Yeah) to be an engineer. She has been invaluable to us here, and we look forward to her leaving to do great things in the world. But that is down the road, and so we just love her company at the store, and selling at shows.
- Kevin, Kim's nephew. A track star extraordinaire in Pflugerville, he helps us make the world's finest pasta.
- Gilbert, Working hard is his middle name and he helps make the best pasta in the world.
- Patrick, our father to be is young, and caring and loves making the world's finest pasta
- Adam, Gilbert's cousin. Our latest addition. Big, strong, yet gentle with the pasta.
- Roberta, what can I say, she is my best friend and helps out when I need her
- Sasha, well, she isn't an employee, she is my friend, my
confidant, my neighbor, and life without her just doesn't seem
possible.
And she sure does look pretty. What else can I say about this very important person in my life.
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Visiting Chef Roy will teach healthy cooking techniques to you, your group, or your company. Just call to arrange Healthy Cooking!
Talk to David Oliverio about personal training to be the best you can be, www.DavidOliverio.com a good friend, a great athlete, and the city's BEST trainer around, bar none.