About Becky

Becky Selengut is a graduate of William Smith College and the Seattle Culinary Academy where she was awarded the Outstanding Culinarian of the Year. Selengut has worked on two PBS cooking shows, cheffed on a yacht tour of the Inside Passage, and taught cooking to immigrants and refugees and found them work in the food industry. Selengut has had stints at La Medusa and La Spiga; spent three years at the nationally acclaimed restaurant The Herbfarm in Woodinville, Washington and currently teaches cooking for PCC Natural Markets. In 2004 she started Cornucopia and in January 2006 she launched the website Seasonal Cornucopia . Selengut is a co-author of The Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook  and a freelance writer for Seattle Homes and Lifestyles.

Each year Selengut donates cooking classes, demonstrations, dinners or books to raise money for local charities and non-profits. In 2008 she will be working with the Seattle Women's Chorus, Sustainable Ballard, Sustainable Capitol Hill, Passages Northwest, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, Shoreline High School's Culinary Arts Program, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Cascade Harvest Coalition, and Slow Food. Since 2003, Selengut has been a volunteer once-a-week driver for Senior Services of King County.

People are saying...

"Best. Dinner. Ever."
Nicola Griffith
Author

"Becky is generous with her culinary talents and a joy to work with and learn from. She brings to the kitchen a keen palate and enthusiastic delight for flavor balanced with common sense and solid technical skill."
Jerry Traunfeld
Former Executive Chef
The Herbfarm

"Our guests sighed with pleasure when they caught sight of Cornucopia's exquisitely arranged Spanish tapas at our National Parks benefit reception."
Heather Weiner
Former Director, Northwest Region
National Parks Conservation Association

"Becky provides food which encompasses all that food can be...connection, pleasure, generosity, glamour. Her intuitive understanding of how food nourishes gives substance to each occasion."
Jacqueline Barnett
Artist

"Becky has changed our relationship to food. As a teacher and private chef, she has broadened our culinary horizons, and sharpened our sense of the details that go into every dish. Her delicious, healthful cooking verges on the therapeutic if not the divine!"
Mark Malamud
Susan Hautala
Seattle, WA