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Are you constantly on the run, leaving virtually no time to prepare your family a nice meal? Are you looking for someone to prepare healthful dishes that support special diet requirements? Do you have an interest in participating in cooking classes or planning a dinner party? Then look no further, as Personal Chef Eileen Sherman is ready to cater to the various culinary needs of the greater Mequon area.

Her business, Live to Eat, came to life in 2008, and the success was immediate. While restaurant training was a component in her culinary school curriculum, Sherman chose to become a personal chef, explaining, “I enjoy meeting and getting to know my clients and being able to cook for them on an ongoing basis. I also have tremendous flexibility being a personal chef, with my time, creativity and finding the highest-quality ingredients I can use in preparing dishes.”

Going back to before her retraining as a professional chef, Sherman was practicing as a critical-care nurse in Boston and spent much of her time caring for her late husband, Dr. David Sherman, during his battle with cancer. Her passion for cooking only grew during these times. “I look at my retraining as a professional chef as a continuation of my healthcare background and training,” she says. “I think my healthcare background is what makes me unique from many traditional chefs today.”

In fact, in addition to the Live to Eat operation, Sherman remains a faculty member at the Medical College of Wisconsin and has previously served as the chef at the Sarah Chudnow Campus in Mequon.

While Sherman takes great pleasure in cooking for the senior population and those enduring health afflictions, her most popular services come in the way of personal chef services and small dinner party and other small event catering opportunities. Before establishing her business, Sherman says, “I was often asked to make desserts for a local restaurant, and many friends would call me to cater small dinner parties and other events for them. Also, if one spouse was traveling, I would often be called to cook meals for the spouse at home.”

Ultimately, Live to Eat aims to bring family and friends together over the dinner table, while at the same time taking the headache out of shopping, preparing, serving and cleaning up afterwards. “People are living very busy lives in this area and what they don’t want to get into the habit of doing is running through the drive-thru for food that is high in calories and not nutritious,” says Sherman. “I offer a service so people can come home from an incredibly busy day to a wonderful home-cooked meal.”

In-home or on-site cooking classes—sometimes on Sherman’s farm in Mequon—are also part of the Live to Eat services, providing a great way to bring people together for some culinary entertainment. One of her more popular classes is the “Taste of Tuscany,” which highlights many of the Italian recipes she brought back from her time in Lucca, Italy, where she completed an intense advanced program for professional chefs.

Sherman has also recently begun doing corporate cooking classes. “With a PhD in Organizational Behavior, I can speak to issues of team building, motivation, negotiation, conflict resolution and others, and am able to take those concepts out of their familiar work place and put them to work in the kitchen,” says Sherman.

She shares a strong belief in the importance of incorporating cooking programs in the schools as well. Not long ago, she completed “Teen Cuisine,” an after-school program for sixth through eighth grade students at St. Dominic School in Brookfield. “Students learned valuable cooking skills, how to pick ingredients, the differences in cooking techniques,” explains Sherman. “It is my hope that other schools will want to have an after-school program like this.”

Sherman is in the midst of writing a book in partnership with Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. Dedicated to her late husband, the publication “is a cookbook of eating healthy and making healthy lifestyle changes after a diagnosis of cancer,” explains Sherman, adding, “it is not a cookbook that speaks a lot about cancer. It is broader than that.”

Whatever your culinary needs may be, Chef Eileen Sherman is sure to go above and beyond. To obtain further information about the services delivered through Live to Eat, call (262) 512-4163, visit www.livetoeatnow.com, or email Chef Eileen Sherman at eileen@livetoeatnow.com.