The Power of Food with Healing Chef Kimberly Knox

Kimberly Knox bills herself as a healing chef; food, in her telling, is the first medicine. Raised on a Vermont farm and settled in Sarasota since 2015, she is a certified integrative health coach and organic bioenergetic chef whose book, Simple Cooking for Vitality, sorts its recipes by the part of the body each is meant to energize. Her earlier Longboat Key sessions mixed the case for clean ingredients with a demonstration of a dish from the book, in one case a chicken salad. The Power of Food brings that approach to The Paradise Center, the nonprofit wellness and lifelong-learning hub on the second floor of Longboat Island Chapel, as a midday program on cooking for energy.