Chef Becky
Personal Chef & Catering Service
Fine dining at your home

Open for Business Magazine
Business Spotlight
June/July 2003

Imagine coming home after a busy day at work to a good meal that has been prepared by your personal chef. It isn’t a fantasy for Chef Becky’s customers. They may be sitting down to a dinner of Sesame Crusted Ahi Tuna with Wasabi Mayonnaise or Flank Steak Roll-Ups with Spinach and Bacon with a side of Pesto Mashed Potatoes.

Becky Barter, owner of Chef Becky Personal Chef & Catering Service, cooks and delivers several nights’ worth of dinners to your home. After a 20-minute phone interview to find out about your family’s food preferences, food allergies and special diet needs, she will prepare a custom menu of five entrees and three side dishes for you. She delivers the meals to your home with complete instructions for reheating the meals. “I can customize meals specifically to a client’s taste,” says Barter. “Some people like spicy food and others like bland. I can make gluten-free, low fat, vegetarian, or Atkins diet meals.

Trained at the United States Personal Chef Association in Phoenix, Arizona, Barter learned how to cook meals using fresh, quality ingredients. Since most of the food a personal chef cooks will be frozen and reheated, Barter says she was trained to cook and assemble dishes so that they won’t taste overcooked when a client reheats them.

Chef Becky appears on KMTR’s NewsSource Today program to demonstrate her cooking in the TV studio. This fall she will be teaching non-credit cooking classes at Linn-Benton Community College.

Barter joined the Eugene Chamber shortly after starting her business. “With the Chamber I feel connected to the whole business community,” she says. “I also appreciate the networking opportunities the Chamber provides.”

In her spare time, Barter likes to travel and try new foods. A vacation in the Yucatan added Lime Soup with Tortillas to her repertoire. She lived in Japan as a high school student and later as a college intern. After talking about her exotic foods as squid ink ice cream and raw seal sushi in Japan, Barter adds that a spicy tofu dish is the only Japanese dish she cooks regularly.