Chefs Jared and Kate grew up together in New Jersey, the Garden State, surrounded by small family farms. Summer meant roadside stands piled with berries, tomatoes, and sweet corn in every meal.

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In 2003 they moved to Colorado together for their culinary training at Johnson & Wales University. More than twenty years later, they’re best friends and business partners, still cooking side by side. Kate brings a lifelong love of seasonal produce and an expertise in pastry and pizzas. Jared builds his cooking around vegetables, grains, and legumes, so even the salmon and chicken nights on a Gudchef menu are full of plants. Two decades in the same kitchen shows up on the plate.

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Gudchef is how they are now channeling their passion for cooking with beautiful ingredients and bringing joy through food. During farmers market season, they’re at the Boulder market every Saturday, buying from growers they’ve known for years, and everything they cook is 100% organic. Their olive oil comes from a small family farm in Tuscany, where they’ve visited and gotten to know the family. Nothing they make uses seed oils.

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They keep their client list small so every menu can be written from scratch. If your child won’t eat mushrooms or you’ve just gone gluten-free, they’ll know, and next Tuesday’s dinners will reflect it.