CEC (American Culinary Federation Certified Executive Chef)

Ron Pickarski, president and executive chef/consultant for Eco-Cuisine, Inc. (a Colorado-based company that produces a line of Vegan foodservice products).  Further, Ron is the first professional vegetarian chef to be certified as an executive chef by the American Culinary Federation. As the founder/director of the American Natural Foods Team, which competes at the International Culinary Olympics in Germany with vegan cuisine.  In addition, Ron is a 7-time Culinary Olympic medalist, taking gold, silver and bronze in the competition with Vegan cuisine.

When he’s not busy going for the gold or whipping up gourmet vegetarian cuisine, Ron can be found making television appearances, and he has produced two cookbooks and a video and written many articles for national periodicals. He has also been featured in Vegetarian Times, The National Culinary Review, USA Today Weekend, and many more publications.