PEOPLE ARE
TALKING ABOUT QUINTESSENCIA

"Patricia Catenne from Quintessencia has worked for our family for four years, planning menus and preparing weekly dinners for our busy household with an emphasis on healthy, organic cooking. Her well-balanced menus are aesthetically pleasing to both the eye and the palate."

– Judy Perl, New York, NY

NEWS RELEASES

Quintessencia Personal Chef Services,
Private Events and Health/Nutrition Counseling
Delight the Senses

New Integrated Culinary Services Company
Provides Healthy Alternative to Manhattanites

NEW YORK – November 6, 2006 – Quintessencia today announced its launch into the culinary services market. Providing a broad range of offerings from personal chef services, private event services, and tailored health and nutrition counseling to cooking classes, parties, workshops, and travel programs, Quintessencia focuses on providing delicious, nutritious delicacies to its clients.

With a focus on freshness and sustainably farmed ingredients, Quintessencia frees clients from the worries of shopping and the hassles of preparation by delivering luxurious culinary experiences that restores balance to clients’ hectic city lifestyles. With services ranging from preparing meals for busy families to producing gala events complete with flowers, decorations, and wines perfectly matched to the food, Quintessencia is set to fulfill its clients unique culinary needs.

"Based on my in-depth training from the Integrative Nutrition Institute in New York, Quintessencia will use the finest fresh, organic, sustainably farmed ingredients to nurture the bodies and souls of our clients," said Patricia Catenne, founder of Quintessencia. "Quintessencia is a new concept in culinary service – we offer tailored services that bring together nutrition and food itself to change the people think about how and what they eat."

"After individual counselling and evaluation of my needs, Quintessencia created a complete nutrition plan," said Sheila Erdos, a Quintessencia client in New York. "Focusing on superb preparation and natural ingredients, Quintessencia created the most delicious meals that helped me embrace more healthy eating habits. Besides, all the healthy choices taste wonderful."

With a life-long background in culinary and performing arts, founder Patricia Catenne is the driving force behind Quintessencia. Her French heritage, as well as comprehensive training at the Integrative Nutrition Institute, has provided her with the experience she needs to lead this new organization and serve the culinary needs of individuals and businesses in New York.

About Quintessencia

Quintessencia provides personal chef services, private event services, and tailored health and nutrition counseling, as well as a variety of other culinary services, including cooking classes, parties, workshops, and travel programs to individuals and businesses in the New York City metropolitan area. An environmentally conscious, integrated culinary service company Quintessencia focuses on tantalizing the senses, while providing nutritious, healthy, marvelous tasting food.