ABOUT

Hi Friends! My name is Chanelle Saks Sullivan, owner and founder of CHEZ CHANELLE

My aim with CHEZ CHANELLE is to inspire you took with resilience & creativity! To uses food as a means of connection and love. After all, my motto is “CELEBRATE LIFE THROUGH FOOD”

My Story

I am a self-taught chef! I grew up watching my mom cook up the most incredible meals, sometimes with very little means. Some of my fondest childhood memories are the loud, bustling & delicious dinners we would have with our extended family. Our family will literally use any excuse to get together and eat; every possible occasion, birthday, you know name it – we get together to enjoy a meal and many laughs!

Although I have many fond food memories, there was a time when I did not have the most positive relationship with food; during my adolescent years while working as a fashion model. Thankfully I was able to overcome a harsh battle with anorexia and re-establish my love & passion for food some years later but it was not easy. Because of this, for me – food and artistic expression through food is representative of my resilience & strength – and you better believe I’m going to wear that like a badge of honour!

Cooking is just another palette…

I have also always had a lifelong passion for all things “art” – whether it be photography, fashion, home design, makeup, painting, writing… and to me, cooking is just another art form & palette that I get to play with!

What can you expect on CHEZ CHANELLE?

My Mediterranean roots definitely inspire a lot my recipes and my body naturally craves what most people would call “healthy” food but to be honest, I really do not like that label at all. To me, the term “healthy” is so subjective & coming from someone who became anorexic by fixating on “what’s healthy” – I would prefer to ditch the label all together! If you really want to know… for the most part I like to define “healthy cooking” based on the time, love, & effort put into the process. That probably sounds corny but it’s really what I believe – when you put that elbow grease into kneading out your pasta dough & light your forearms on fire by grating cheese & stand over a pot of bolognese for 2 hours – THAT’S WHAT I CALL HEALTHY! So in summary, I will be sharing recipes that I make for my family that are filled with love.