Chef Ruthie Praskins

Ruthie is a holistic chef, herbalist, functional nutritionist, ritualist and grief tender.  She runs The Healing Hearth, a botanically-forward and gluten-free friendly, farm to table private chef service in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Ruthie orients towards food as medicine, ritual and a daily opportunity to court deeper intimacy with the living ecosystems we belong to. Ruthie is passionate about Nourishment as an integral pathway in supporting the human capacity to show up resourced and embodied in these times of Great Turning and finds great joy in alchemizing local ingredients and medicinal herbs into edible art.

Ruthie weaves extensive knowledge from training in Functional Nutrition, Ayurveda, Vitalist Herbalism, Community Grief Ritual and Somatic Trauma Resolution into her custom menus and Way.

When not tending the Healing Hearth, Ruthie can be found wildcrafting medicinal herbs, supporting community grief rituals, serving as a Hospice Care Volunteer with the Zen Caregiving Project in San Francisco, gathering with her beloved earth based jewish community or resting deeply and enjoying the beauty of her coastal hometown.