BelleCal Seasonal

art of butchery from her dad, the local butcher, and she furthered her knowledge through specialty courses at the local college. Her family has owned and operated restaurants, as well as a catering business, for 25 years, and Isabelle grew up learning the ins and outs of the industry and culinary arts. Isabelle loves to share her passion for quality food with others. In 2011, she created the Encinitas Food Swap to bring her local community together to exchange homemade kitchen creations such as canned goods and homebrews. For the past eight years, she has been a volunteer at Paul Ecke Elementary School, where she teaches children about the “farm to table” philosophy and how to use the harvest from the school garden in their own creations. Isabelle’s culinary and crafty skills have led to numerous television appearances for The Martha Stewart Show, and most recently, in 2016 she was one of 80 home chefs selected (out of 57,000 people in the country) to advance to the final stages of selection for the seventh season of the TV program “Master Chef.” She also made it to the final rounds for season eigh (80/34,000). Isabelle, a single mom to three young boys, recently established her catering and meal preparation business, BelleCal Seasonal, in Encinitas, Calif., and specializes in using beautiful California seasonal produce.