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Michel Nischan is an American chef.
Michel is credited with creating a cuisine of well-being, focused on pure, local, organic ingredients and intense flavors.
Michel Nischan is founder and CEO of Wholesome Wave, co-founder of the James Beard Foundation's Chefs Action Network, as well as founder and partner with the.

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Chef Michel Nischan of Heartbeat W New York - Biography

When restaurateur Drew Nieporent had to find a chef for Heartbeat who had a keen awareness of nature and well-being, he didn't have to look very far. Michel Nischan was already the Corporate Consulting Chef for Nieporent's Myriad Restaurant Group, and Drew knew Nischan had an innate ability to turn natural, whole foods into something healthful and flavorful. That’s because Nischan was an advocate of sustainability well before it became the buzz word it is today.

Nischan credits his respect for nature to his mother, who, in order to feed her depression-era family of thirteen, turned to the family farm. She passed her ideas of cooking, farming, and deep respect for the earth's bounty onto her son, who began his career in the kitchen as a breakfast cook in a rural area near the Wisconsin- Illinois border. He took his love of the land to the Windy City, working in some of Chicago's top restaurants, including La Tour in the Park Hyatt and Jovan Troyevic's prestigious Le Perroquet. Soon after, he moved to Milwaukee,

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Michel Nischan

Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!

Michel Nischan is the best-selling author of Taste Pure and Simple. He appears frequently on the Food Network, has been a guest on Oprah, and is regularly featured in O, The Oprah Magazine. He lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, with his wife and five children. Mary Goodbody is a nationally known food writer and cookbook editor who has worked on over 45 books. Susie Cushner is a Boston-based photographer whose work can be seen in numerous cookbooks.

Series

Books:

Sustainable Delicious, August 2010
Hardcover
Homegrown Pure and Simple:, August 2005
Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table
Hardcover

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Michel Nischan

American chef

Michel Nischan is an American chef. A four-time James Beard Foundation Award winner, he is the cofounder and chairman of Wholesome Wave, Founder and President of Wholesome Wave, Co-Founder of the James Beard Foundation Chefs Boot Camp for Policy & Change along with Chefs Action Network, as well as Founder and Partner with actor Paul Newman of the former Dressing Room Restaurant.

Wholesome Wave

Wholesome Wave was founded in 2007 by Nischan, along with friends Michael Batterberry, and Gus Schumacher as founding Board Chair. It was founded with funding from Newman’s Own Foundation and the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation,^[1] and supported in part by funding from Grow for Good, a philanthropic initiative of FOOD & WINE Magazine.^[2]

Nischan wrote three cookbooks during his years as a chef known for local, organic, and sustainable cooking. Taste Pure and Simple (Chronicle Books 2003), a 2004 best-selling Beard award winner, Homegrown Pure and Simple (Chronicle Books 2005), and Sustainably Delicious (Rodale Publi