Biography of Barbara Avery       

Barbara’s passion for cooking as art and sustenance began as a child in her Nana’s kitchen.  From there, she went on to take food arts and management classes, own a personal chef business, and work as a cook at a German American Club.

 In 2003, Barbara combined her love of cooking with her appetite for cookbooks and self-published The Collective Chicken – The Mike the Headless Chicken Cookbook, a collection of recipes gathered over two decades. The book has sold in Fruita, Colorado at the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival, Borders, and Hastings Books, as well nationwide and in other countries through her Recipes of the Rockies website and Amazon. com  It has been featured in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. 

Barbara writes feature food articles for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a member of Cox News Service, through which her articles have been published in other Cox affiliates.  Recipes from her book have been published in the Denver Post.  She is also a once-a-month guest chef on Mesa County's TV cooking show Supper Time Solutions.  Other endeavors include having moderated a class on self-publishing at Western Colorado Community College.