Ames Starr
Ames Starr is a kitchen creative, food educator, recipe developer and founder of the popular Brisbane plantbased brand, Raw & Peace. With a colourful background working in organics and wholefoods since the early 2000s, Ames is a firm believer that healthy eating can be easy, fun and delicious, and being a true gypsy at heart, her palate is heavily infl uenced by her travels.
With simple beginnings at Brisbane's Northey Street Organic Farmers Market in 2010, Ames initially became known for Raw & Peace's incredible raw vegan treat range. Despite having no formal training, her extensive cooking career has seen her facilitate cooking classes for more than a decade, both locally and internationally. She has also run retreats and trained some of the Asia Pacific region's top chefs, and in 2020 opened her plant-based and gluten-free deli, the first of its
