Chef Akasha has devoted most of her life to her passion of using healthy and organic ingredients in mainstream cooking. As a teenager in South Florida, her idea of fun was to invite all the surfers on the beach over for one of her creative vegetarian dinners. Her love of healthy foods, surfing, and yoga led her to Los Angeles, where she became the chef at the Golden Temple, one of the cities original vegetarian restaurants. It was at the Golden Temple that she began to define her own style of cuisine with a critically acclaimed menu and a bakery full of sugar free cookies, cakes and pies. She brought her knowledge of "foods that heal" to everything she created and to some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Akasha works as a private chef and caters parties and events in Los Angeles. Some of her favorite experiences include: cooking holiday dinners for Billy Bob Thornton, catering events at the Sundance Film Festival, making Thanksgiving dinner for 200 while on tour with Michael Jackson, and catering parties for Kyle McLachlan. Akasha has catered backstage for the Grammy's, dinner parties for for Al Pacino, photo shoots for Richard Gere, and birthday parties for Winona Ryder.

Akasha has traveled and cooked all over the world exploring local markets, restaurants and regional foods in Asia, India, North Africa, Australia and Eastern/Western Europe. Her first book, The Art of Tofu: Celebrated Vegetarian Recipes from Around the World contains a collection of 50 recipes inspired by these travels.

In addition, Akasha writes a monthly column called Trends for Vegetarian Times Magazine and works as a spokesperson for Silk Soymilk. Her passions include traveling, entertaining, writing and collecting cookbooks from the last century. She lives with her husband and fourteen year old daughter in Los Angeles.