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HAVE A SEAT
A place at the table looks different for everyone. Whether you're gathering friends, inspiring children, hosting a retreat, or creating a memorable event, I'd love to bring a little seasonal magic to your table.
Chef Emma Gabrielle
Chef Emma Gabrielle
CHOOSE YOUR TABLE:
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Your kitchen. Your menu. Your evening, completely taken care of.
Seasonal menus crafted around your tastes, your lifestyle, and the way you love to eat. Whether you're hosting an intimate dinner, celebrating something special, or stocking your refrigerator with a week of beautifully prepared meals, every menu is designed to make eating well feel effortless.
Weekly Meal Prep
A week's worth of seasonal meals, thoughtfully prepared in your own kitchen and ready to pop in the oven for a delicious meal in 30 minutes or less.Private Dinners
Thoughtfully planned evenings for anniversaries, birthdays, or simply gathering the people you love.Chef Services for Your Getaway
Spend your time making memories on your vacation while I take care of the menus.Custom Experiences
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Hands in the dough. Wine in the glass. Leave with a menu you can replicate again and again.
Every class begins with a story. A season, a place, a tradition worth bringing to the table. Together we'll cook our way through a thoughtfully curated menu, share the meal we've created, and send you home with the recipes, inspiration, and confidence to recreate the experience in your own kitchen.
Every gathering begins with an invitation. Visit the Classes page to see what's coming next, or join my newsletter for early access when new experiences are released.
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Where curiosity grows alongside confidence in the kitchen.
Through hands-on culinary enrichment, children discover that food can be creative, nourishing, and fun. By exploring seasonal ingredients, cooking from scratch, and connecting with the natural world, they'll build confidence in the kitchen while developing a lifelong appreciation for the way food nourishes, supports, and helps our bodies thrive.
Little Nature Chefs
Playful, hands-on culinary adventures designed for young learners first discovering the joy of cooking and seasonal ingredients.
Junior Nature Chefs
An immersive culinary experience where older children build confidence in the kitchen while exploring cooking techniques, nutrition, gardening, and cuisines from around the world.
School & Homeschool Programs
Flexible culinary enrichment programs offered as weekly classes, multi-week series, after-school programs, homeschool enrichment, workshops, and special events.
Custom Youth Experiences
Looking for something unique? Let's create a culinary experience designed especially for your students or children.
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A long table. Golden hour. The people you love gathered around one unforgettable meal.
Menus designed around the occasion, the season, and the people gathered - for retreats, celebrations, and the events that deserve meals as memorable as the moment.
Holiday Hosting
Seasonal menus that let you enjoy your guests rather than spend the day in the kitchen.Celebrations
For birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, and all of life's sweetest moments.Backyard Dinners
Golden hour, beautiful food, and an evening designed for conversation.Just Because
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Gather. Rest. Nourish. Repeat.
Thoughtfully crafted menus designed to support the rhythm of your retreat. Whether your guests are gathering after a day of workshops, returning from an afternoon hike, or lingering over coffee on a slow morning, every meal is seasonal, nourishing, and created to become part of the experience itself.
Signature Retreat Menus
Every menu is thoughtfully designed around your retreat's theme, intention, and the experience you want your guests to have.
Daily Dining
From nourishing breakfasts to candlelit dinners, each meal is created to support the rhythm of your retreat.
Welcome & Farewell Gatherings
Begin your retreat with a beautiful welcome dinner or end the weekend with a farewell brunch.
Gathering Tables
Seasonal grazing tables, afternoon refreshments, desserts, and beverage stations designed to keep conversation flowing between sessions.
Custom Culinary Concepts
Have a unique vision? I'd love to dream it up with you. From elemental menus to destination-inspired experiences, we'll create something your guests have never experienced before.
Late Summer on the Riviera Cooking Class
Late Summer on the Riviera Cooking Class
SATURDAY AUGUST 22ND AT 06PM
Who is Emma Gabrielle?
The farmers’ market on a Sunday morning. A linen tote filling slowly — a peach so ripe it bruises at the touch, an herb bunch still damp from the morning dew, a bundle of citrus so vibrant it perfumes the kitchen with a spritz. This is where every menu begins. With what is beautiful right now, what the body is asking for, what the occasion actually calls for.
Emma has been thinking about food this way since she was a teenager — curled up with a notebook in front of the Food Network, writing down flavor pairings the way other girls wrote poetry. Because for her, it was poetry. A language she understood instinctively, long before she had the words to explain why.
She went on to earn a nutritionist’s certification from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition - to understand food beyond flavor. The way it moves through the body. The way it heals. The way a plate built with intention lands differently from one that was simply prepared. The ancient magic of food as medicine.
Then, she pursued her culinary degree, spending years as a private chef and caterer, curating menus for evenings where the food was part of the story. But the kitchen has always held a deeper, private magic — where anxiety surrenders to kneading dough, where sadness gets folded into warmth and transformed. Her most sacred space.
Within that sacred space, she experiments with a magical touch on classic dishes — honoring the story they carry while finding where they want to go next. Lighter. Brighter. Infused with a California ease that makes a hearty tradition feel both deeply familiar and refreshingly new. Herb-forward sauces bright with lemon. Chilled soups pale and silky, finished with a single edible flower. Stone fruit roasted until the edges caramelize and the rich sweetness deepens.
Setting the table as a ritual. Candlelight sparkling off crystal glasses. Linen napkins holding the theme. The kind of dinner where nobody looks at their phone. Where the glasses keep getting refilled and the candles burn low and the conversation echoes late into the night.
Nourishment and indulgence were never meant to live separately. Every table built by her hands holds both in a delicate balance of honoring the body and the soul.
Douceur:
A culinary collection for the art of living softly. Recipes, rituals, and the quiet magic of a life made beautiful one meal at a time.
Discover chapter one — full hardcover cookbook coming soon
download your free chapter here.