Pamela Lee
Culinary Advisor
Phone: (805) 451-1075
Email: [email protected]
Fax: (805) 565-7554
Pamela Nance Lee has been supporting and preparing local foods since the early 1980’s. She studied Foods and Nutrition at Northern California’s hub of natural and local foods, Humboldt State University. After graduating in 1987, Pamela enlisted in the Peace Corps Guatemala, where she studied Spanish and worked with a Community Health Project. Upon returning to the U.S., Pamela began her 20+ years of work centered around the preparation of healthy and delicious foods. Some of her former employers include: Arcata Co-op Whole Foods Bakery; Ventura’s City Bakery; Patagonia’s Employee Natural Foods Cafeteria; Santa Barbara’s Our Daily Bread; County of Ventura’s Senior Nutrition Program; Santa Barbara’s Community Action Commission Nutrition Services; Helena Montana’s Real Food Store; and, most recently, the s’Cool Food Initiative. Pamela also owned her own catering business, Organic Planet Services, where she provided local organic food for large multi-day events such as yoga retreats and permaculture design courses.
She shares the belief that eating foods that have been grown in a sustainable manner nourishes our bodies and our planet, and looks forward to working side by side with Santa Barbara County’s school food staff members to provide these foods for our children.