Join us for some juicy recipe talk as guest Renee Baribeau discusses her nomination as the Next Top Spiritual Author with her book, The Shaman Chef.


In The Shaman Chef: My Life and My Recipes, Renee Baribeau tells how she overcame neglect, abuse, addiction, and chronic depression by creating life-sustaining rituals based on her own intuition and teachings from various spiritual traditions. Renees natural gift for cooking saved her from an early death with drugs and alcohol, but when it deserted her she had to discover a new menu for survival. This memoir, a bountiful mélange of memories sandwiched between mouthwatering recipes and uplifting rituals, will make you laugh, cry, and look at how your own life stories nourish or hinder your healing.
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Education: Renee Baribeau graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Communication and a minor in Philosophy from the University of Southern Maine. Renee apprenticed at the NY Restaurant School where she learned at the apron strings of several world-class chefs.


Experience: While in her twenties,she opened, owned and operated a Fresh Market Cuisine Restaurant in Syracuse and earned positive reviews from Canada to New Jersey. During this time she also had a show on Cable TV called Cooking with Renee.


The book is organized according to the seasons of the year, as they are represented in the ceremonial medicine wheel of many indigenous tribes. Each season corresponds to a stage of life in the process of human development and to an initiation in the larger sense.

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