About

Magali Brecke, LAc MTCM

While training for her licensure in Chinese Medicine, Herbology, and Dietetics, Magali became enamored with Functional Medicine and Functional Nutrition. As she was also a working chef by nights and weekends, a natural coalescing brought her cooking experience together with a fervent passion for nutritional science.

In 2015, she co-founded Kitchen Witch, a certified organic artisan bone broth company whose products are now available across the Western U.S. Her deep knowledge of the microbiome and gut health informed her recipe development, staff training program, and helped grow the company, with her co-founders, to 10x over five years.

Since 2015, Magali has worked as a Nutritional Consultant and private paleo, anti-inflammatory chef for families and individuals around the country, primarily in the Bay Area. She has spent over ten thousand hours cooking with and teaching families and individuals in their homes about how to manage their unique health challenges, through food. Through these years of practice, she has gained significant insight into the insecurities, needs, and desires of home cooks in the evolving world of wellness and food as medicine.

Magali teaches many courses throughout the year on Functional Nutrition, focusing on making the teachings more tangible with hands-on food preparation, cooking, and eating. In addition to in-person cooking seminars, she currently teaches weekly live webinars for 70-80 immuno-compromised students at the Heal Hive. Her work with the Heal Hive will be featured in the upcoming Netflix documentary series, Well, later in 2020.

Mia Venuti, Sous-chef & Kitchen Manager

Mia began working with Magali in 2017 as part of the Kitchen Witch Bone Broth team. Having proven her enthusiasm in the commercial kitchen, Mia began immersive training as a personal chef under Magali, working closely with Magali’s nutritional protocols for individual clients and families.

Mia has since become a chef of great might and palette! She is especially versed in helping even the most limited of ingredient lists shine, making our clients forget they are on any kind of protocol.

All new personal chef and meal preparation clients now get to benefit from Mia’s extensive training and expert sense of flavor. She is an absolute joy to have in your home and will teach you as much as you care to learn in the kitchen!