AMY ADLER
Amy Adler, partner of “A Proper Meal,” has been cooking for families and friends for the past 30 years. After having spent 17 years as a child psychologist, she realized her passion for her hobby exceeded her enthusiasm for her job. Amy left psychology to devote herself to being a chef, finding a natural niche in the personal, relationship based world of catering to people. With a captive audience her granola, health bars and turkey burgers have ended up on most of her clients’ workout regiments. Catering to special health needs and dietary restrictions, Amy takes healthy and nutritious and makes it enjoyable and delicious. She has found a way to make a living out of what she is most passionate about: a healthy lifestyle with really great food.
TOVAH PASSE
Tovah Passe, partner of “A Proper Meal”, graduated University of Delaware in 2003 with a Bachelors’ degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management. Tovah thought to be a good restaurant manager she would have to know about food, so she then went on to receive her culinary certificate from The Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. Deciding that her interest for cooking outweighed her management training she stayed and worked in New York City restaurants for two years. Tovah then relocated to Westchester, New York to work in the kitchen of Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Her appreciation for cooking grew more and her passion for learning overwhelmed her. In 2006, she left Stone Barns, and took a more personal approach to cooking. Tovah now is a personal chef for families in New York City and Westchester and as far as Greenwich, Connecticut. Tovah has found that although she sometimes longs for the fast pace of an industry kitchen and the heat of the line, there is something to be said for directly taking care of people through education and good food that feels so basic and so wonderful.