CELEBRITY PRIVATE CHEF | AUTHOR | Hospitality wellness strategist
WHAT I DO: :
For more than 14 years, I’ve cooked for and coached a roster of high-profile clients in Los Angeles, New York and beyond, with appearances across Food Network, Bravo, HGTV and national media. Today, I bring that culinary foundation together with functional nutrition, nutrigenetics and longevity to help people eat better, age well and build lives that actually feel good to live.
I’m also a cookbook author, Certified Nutrition Practitioner, Board Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, wellness consultant and hospitality advisor. And yes, a mama. Still my biggest gig.
MY FOOD PHILOSOPHY:
Mediterranean meets ancestral, with a little Blue Zone wisdom thrown in. I believe plants are medicine, protein is foundational, quality matters and food should still be wildly delicious.
I’m far more interested in nourishment than restriction. Seasonal plants, high-quality proteins, healthy fats, fermented foods, beautiful produce and meals that leave you feeling better than they found you. That’s my kind of wellness.
​WHY LONGEVITY:
My own health journey changed the way I thought about wellness. I learned firsthand that symptoms rarely exist in neat little boxes, and that data becomes powerful when you know what to do with it.
Functional testing, genetics, personalized nutrition and lifestyle became tools for understanding my own body more deeply. That experience eventually reshaped my work too. I didn't want to simply cook “healthy” food. I wanted to understand why one way of eating could make one person thrive and leave another feeling completely off.
That curiosity is what led me deeper into functional nutrition, nutrigenetics and longevity, and ultimately to the work I do today.
RANDOM FACTS :
Born + raised California girl. Solo mama. Expensive grocery stores are basically my museums. I will always order the sardines and the bottle of Chilled Red Wine. And I 100% believe really good olive oil solves an unreasonable number of problems...
Hi I’m Nikki
AS SEEN ON …
Home and Family TV
Featured as guest host and chef on Hallmark’s beloved talk series : Home + Family. Nikki taught the audience healthy and easy family recipes.
Food Network + Bravo
Chef, host and judge, Nikki Martin has appeared on more than eight national television programs, including Food Network Star, Chopped: Grill Masters, Bravo’s Going Off the Menu and Hallmark’s Home & Family.
Best Selling Cookbook
Co author of the Best Selling Cookbook based on the Pop culture cult classic movie Mean Girls with Jonathan Bennett, AKA Aaron Samuels of the hit movie. Launched at Barnes N Noble at the famed Grove in Los Angeles . Also available on Amazon.
food is medicine
I Left The Path To Medicine To Become A Chef.
Turns Out, I Never Really Left.
Taking care of people has always been my love language. I just chose food, nourishment, community and the table as my first form of medicine.
Years later, that same curiosity brought me back to the science of how we age, heal and thrive, leading me deeper into functional nutrition, biomarkers and nutrigenetics. Today, the kitchen and the data aren't two separate worlds. They're part of the same conversation.
breaking bread around the table might be the OG wellness Ritual…
Food nourishes us. But so does gathering. Conversation. Laughter. Community. The simple act of sitting around a table with people we love may be every bit as important to a long, well-lived life as what's on the plate.
FUN FACT ::
In 2017, I co-founded The Roulette Society, an invitation-only Los Angeles dinner club built around food, connection and beautifully unexpected gatherings. It was named one of the world's Top 10 dinner clubs by The Venue Report and later helped inspire Bravo's Going Off the Menu.
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