Our Chefs

Adam Guthrie

Adam is a vegan whose passion for food began with a life-threatening illness and continues today in a lifestyle built around healthy cooking and eating.

Adam is a qualified chef and wellness coach who specialises in a wholefood, plant-based diet. He is a passionate advocate for living a simple, healthy and environmentally friendly life. His story begins with a rude awakening when, as an out-of-balance and overweight 39-year-old, he found himself in hospital after an early-morning surf, discovering he’d had a heart attack and being told by his cardiologist that he would be on daily medications for the rest of his life.

Adam didn’t accept that his cardiologist’s “solution” of daily medication was the only way of minimising his risk of another heart attack. Instead, he decided he would do everything in his power to find another way. He learned how to treat himself with absolute kindness, love and respect. Adam transformed his diet, lost 20kg and no longer needs to take medication.

Somewhere along the way, he realised he was more than a chef and a “heart attack survivor” but was