Sylvia is deeply grateful that her journey has been shaped by her travels around the world. Learning about other foods and cultures while living in communities, volunteering on farms, and cooking her way through different countries has evolved her passion and ethos for food and sustainability as well as her compassion for all living things and the earth. Sylvia’s time spent in ashrams, eco-villages, a vegan animal shelter farm as well as farmers markets, a donation-based restaurant, and yoga & meditation centers across the world influenced her ethical values behind creating Chefs for CHEFS and working on her first cookbook.