Green Fork Chefs
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John VanderJagt
Culinary Director & Owner
Chef John with over 20 years restaurant & executive chef cooking experience has worked from Hawaii to India and back to Michigan again, with assisting on opening restaurant accounts to in-home plated dinners for high level executives.From his experience and the function of how larger businesses work, he saw the most fundamental thing missing from served food and that was the level of love and compassion that goes into what is being served.
In his passion for cooking and his love for the science of foods he wanted to bring what most cannot bring to his home town and that is a Farm to Table experience with elevated menus that you’ll talk about in the years to come. -
Tiphani Druart
Creative Director, Co-Owner & Executive Sous Chef
A graphic designer by trait but a creative cook at heart. Tiphani has always had a passion for cooking food for a large crowd. She always cooked for family gatherings and events she hosted for her friends. Tiphani has a passion for the helping those around her chase their dreams and helping them creatively in anyway she can & watch them grow and that is what led her to her graphic design degree; so she could help small businesses with their start up.
After working with Chef John for 4 years in a kitchen where she always found herself working versus the arts. She pushed John for his potential as she does with everyone she has ever met. Because she firmly believes everyone should live out their dreams in life because you only live once. “We should love what we do so it doesn’t become work, but a labor of passion, some days it will feel like work but at the end of the day you must love what you’re doing and why”.
Now she gets to live the best of both worlds with design and cooking. All while constantly pushing her business partner John to new lengths and challenging him creatively and to think outside the box he thought he already thought out of.
On the side Tiphani continues to help small business whenever & where ever she can. When she’s not cooking, she cooking, that or dabbling in some form of arts like painting or digital works of art or photography. -
Marge Chapdelaine
Chef & Wine Connoisseur
Marge with a wide background of knowledge and experience; graduated from the C.I.A and has wine connoisseur training is formally retired and now joins her once protégé John from Creative Dining to work alongside him in his endeavor, extending her continuous assistance in knowledge and friendship.