Pure Joy Culinary Academy is a global culinary school that offers cooking training and chef certifications in nutrition-based cooking - gluten-free, grain-free, plant-based, low-sugar, low-carb, and ketogenic. We are based in Tucson AZ and Bend, OR to teach local classes, offer our desserts at the Farmer's Market, host retreats, and much more. Pure Joy Culinary Academy also provides: Keynote for retreats on cleansing, fasting, and plant-based nutrition One-on-one kitchen consulting and recipe development Cafe Consulting: menu creation, turn-key + licensing Pure Joy Culinary Licensing (run a Pure Joy Culinary Academy from your hometown) Food Demonstrations for businesses: Lunch and learns, recipe demos, healthy office practices How We Got Started Founder and CEO, Elaina Love is a spiritually minded chef who is leading the way in the Raw Plant-Based industry. Her food is designed to help people make transformations in their lives by leaving behind the low-quality grains, meats and processed foods that are no longer a match to a high vibration lifestyle. Elaina's own spiritual awakening and transformation started 20 years ago when she began eating a raw, plant-based diet. She has endured and thrived through the unexpected the death of her 14-year-old son, Dominic, and continues to share the message of Pure Joy through her blog, recipes, online school, and cafe. Elaina owns and operates Pure Joy Culinary Academy, cutting-edge plant-based culinary arts, and nutrition school. The Academy is designed to teach it’s students how to prepare the best meals on the planet while healing and nourishing their body’s, with training's live and online. Elaina is also a speaker on healthy living through food, cleansing, dry fasting.