Ricki with    WSA Transforming Video 3 Women      Food and Lifestyle are the keys to your health.

I empower and serve people to create and experience radically healthier, richer, more productive and joy-filled lives with food.

A Long Island, NY native, I returned to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado in June 2025, and once again call Basalt, Colorado home. My favorite place is still the Rockies – where I and my new husband find peace and inspiration> I love serving as a Certified Nutritionist, chef, coach, speaker, best-selling author, and grandma. “More than 28 years of combined holistic health practice and lifestyle coaching, for women and men who are making life changes, gives me the diverse experiences that inspire my writing, speaking, consulting, and Zoom shows where I demonstrate how to bring nutritious, delicious, and healthy together.

My Zoom class-career began in March of 2020, as weekly interactive classes on intuitive cooking and food prep: “PAN-Tuitive Cooking.” They have morphed into Rickiskitchen – on 4 Thursday’s/month and Patreon.com/rickiskitchen, where I post the current nutrition information and recipes.

As a founding member of The holistic Center for Human Flourishing, in Carbondale, Colorado, I began speaking about health and nutrition to the in public in 2001, and writing a weekly column for the Aspen Daily News. I am a contributing member of the National Association of Nutritional Professionals, Zonta Club International, and The Wellness Universe, where we are making the world a better place, through our holistic wellness work.  My first solo book, YES YOU CAN EAT WELL and EAT RIGHT, and Find the Joy of Cooking, is available here, from The Wellness Universe Library, directly from me on Rickiskitchen.net, and on Amazon as is my newest collaboration, Gifts of Wisdom.   Regarding books, I am as of September 2026, embarking on writing fiction books on Amazon, for fun and profit 🙂

As a Functional Certified Nutritionist, Coach, Chef and speaker, I create awareness and advise re: alternatives to drugs as possible solutions. You ‘ll learn to  control (type II) diabetes, high blood pressure, weight management and cholesterol with non-drug therapies, food, and simple lifestyle modifications.