Meet the chef
Maddy Goldberg,
chef, creator, giver.
Chef Maddy Goldberg, Founder of Cook Eat.
The story
Maddy cooks like a fine-dining chef and feeds people like family.
Maddy was studying social work at the University of Guelph when she started an Instagram account called Cook Eat Sleep Repeat, sharing the meals she made on a student budget. Her approachable, generous cooking found an audience fast, and today more than 100,000 people follow along for her recipes, tips and stories from the kitchen.
She trained at George Brown College and sharpened her craft in some of Toronto's most respected kitchens, including Mary Be Kitchen, Aloette and Salon by Alo, where she learned French fine dining at full intensity.
Then she chose a different path. Maddy founded Cook Eat, her private dining and recipe development company, so she could cook close to the people she feeds and build giving back into everything she does. Every private dinner she cooks sends ten percent to a charity chosen by the host.
"I don't care who I'm cooking for, it's the same food."
Maddy Goldberg, to CBC News
Giving back
Fine dining at the food bank.
Every week, Maddy walks the shelves of the Fort York Food Bank, picks the one or two ingredients that excite her, and turns donations into a hot, thoughtful lunch for more than a hundred people. Chefs across the city now send her their surplus so it can find new life on those plates. Her videos from the food bank kitchen have reached audiences far beyond Toronto, and a portion of every Sip + Supper ticket goes to the Fort York Food Bank in her honour.
Learn about the Fort York Food BankAs seen on
On screen, on air, in print.
CTV, The Good Stuff with Mary Berg
Television
CTV, The Social
Television
CBC Here and Now Toronto
Radio
CBC News
Feature
Toronto Life
Profile
NOW Toronto
Feature
Streets of Toronto
Feature
Foodism
A day in the life
Taste Toronto
Recipe developer
Flip Your Script podcast
Guest
She has also competed in a Restaurants Canada cooking competition and develops recipes and content for food brands around the world.
A practice, in moments
A generous path to the table.
- 2014
Cook Eat Sleep Repeat
Starts sharing home cooking on Instagram while studying social work.
- Culinary school
George Brown College
Formal chef training in Toronto.
- Fine dining
Mary Be Kitchen, Aloette, Salon by Alo
Line cook in Toronto's respected kitchens.
- Cook Eat
Private dining, recipes, content
Founds her own company, with ten percent of every private dinner going to charity.
- Every week
Fort York Food Bank
Cooks lunch for more than a hundred people from donated ingredients.
- Now
Sip + Supper Series
Co-hosts community-based dining with Sommelier Sarah Mifsud.
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