Lastest, most delicious project is Head Chef at the brand spanking new Cabarita Ocean Retreat just up the road from Byron Bay, 15 minutes from Coolangatta airport and right on the glorious Cabarita beachfront. The signature cuisine we have created draws together the fundamental elements of nutritional wisdom with a contemporary culinary style.
Our philosophy has been thoughtfully designed to provide a harvest of seasonal, locally grown, pesticide free, organic and biodynamic whole foods. We celebrate the abundant produce from the farmers and suppliers of the surrounding Tweed Valley and Northern Rivers.
Cabarita Ocean Retreat offers a holistic, integrative health and wellness experience in a delightful natural beachfront environment. Our aim is to inspire you to make a commitment to healthy living by guided personal experiences and education.
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The Melbourne Weekly says: When Samantha Gowing decided to redesign her lifestyle, she never predicted that eventually she would teach other people how to transform theirs. “I always knew I had that entrepreneurial streak, it was my gut really,” she says.”This “entrepreneurial streak” led Gowing to establish Gowings Food Health Wealth, a wellness company that teaches hotels and retreats around the globe how to serve healthy, organic food with flavour.
Bringing her signature cuisine – which you’ll also find on her blog Bitter Sweet Sour – to retreats across Australia, Bali, Sri Lanka and even Zanzibar, Gowing marvels at how far she has come from being teased by food critics for being the “don’t panic, it’s organic!” lady in the ’90s. Now with singer Clare Bowditch as one of her many clients, it is clear she’s discovered the winning – and healthy – formula for success.“At the end of the day people are craving happiness,” she says. “And I can guarantee that this food brings that.” Read more
“With the increasing demand for beautifully prepared, healthy food and the escalating global health issues, Vue de monde enjoys a nurturing nutritional alliance with Samantha Gowing. Sam has shared her extensive knowledge and unique insight into food as medicine and wellbeing for the past four years with our team. This combined with twenty-five years experience in hospitality and the corporate arena makes her a true champion of balanced living!” Shannon Bennet, Vue de monde
Clinical nutritionist and former restaurateur Samantha Gowing has turned her lifetime experience of food into an exciting venture where good food is healthful as well as delicious. Her conscious cuisine programs are available for either private home visits, in-clinic appointments , health retreat or on site Corporate Health Consulting.
Gowing is also known for her multi-award winning restaurants including Gowings Grace Darling Hotel in Collingwood. Throughout the 1990s she showcased innovative food and also some of Australia’s best acoustic performers and modern visual artists.
The breadth of understanding that combined food, wine, music and art in contemporary pub setting has enabled her to take the next step. She has taken food beyond the plate as a sensual and social experience, and turned it into a vital and healing medicine.
After 20 years in the Melbourne restaurant industry, Gowing needed a new challenge but still wanted to be involved in food. She took a fork in the road, studied Nutritional Health Science.
In April 2003 she was awarded the “Excellence in Clinical Practice” at the annual Graduation ceremony for the Melbourne College of Natural Medicine.
Gowings Food Health Wealth revolves around food for health and well being, focussing on fresh, abundant, organic and biodynamic provisions. Her passionate and extensive understanding of nutritional medicine explores the healing effects food has on the body, mind and spirit.
Gowings therapeutic menu combines the healing philosophies of the East with modern nutritional medicine to assist digestive disorders, food sensitivities and intolerances, foods for optimal wellness and healing with wholefoods.
In 2008 Samantha relocated to Byron Bay where she consults privately, hosts organic cooking classes at premier health retreats. Gowings Food Health Wealth also pioneered an exclusive Therapeutic Chef Service with Vue de Monde’s Shannon Bennett, delivering fresh, healthy and vital cuisine straight to the clients’ door.
“There’s no way people are going to say ‘that tastes awful!’ with my medicine,” she says. “This is a unique holistic culinary pathway.”
For further information, please contact:
Samantha Gowing 02) 6685 5400 or 0411 852 387
To enhance the quality of life of those we meet
by instilling an awareness and providing educational concepts, so they may make informed choices regarding the
health and wellness of themselves and their loved ones
Lastest, most delicious project is Head Chef at the brand spanking new Cabarita Ocean Retreat just up the road from Byron Bay, 15 minutes from Coolangatta airport and right on the glorious Cabarita beachfront. The signature cuisine we have created draws together the fundamental elements of nutritional wisdom with a contemporary culinary style.
