Healthy food, mindful movement

Vitality you can taste, feel and remember.

Health & Cooking helps organisations give their people more energy. Through food, through movement, and through a chef who has spent 35 years learning what belongs on a plate: Richard Jacobsen.

Discuss your programme See what we do

On-site workshops and team days
Food styling for cookbooks and campaigns
Over 35 years in hospitality

Salade niçoise with tuna, egg, anchovies and tomato

'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.'
Hippocrates

No.

trends and hypes
theory from the sidelines
airy-fairy wellness talk
run-of-the-mill company outings
competition for competition's sake

Yes.

fresh, seasonal produce
fire, fresh air and cooking together
moving to recover, not to perform
35 years of kitchen experience
a chef who knows what food does

What Health & Cooking does

Four ways to make food work for you.

Teams who want more energy, brands who want people to taste their product, publishers putting a cookbook together. Different work, the same chef: Richard is at the stove himself, cooking with whatever the season brings.

Beetroot soup with sour cream and chives in a small cast-iron pot

For teams and organisations

Fooddoktor

Food as medicine.

Group sessions in which a team discovers first-hand what food does to energy and concentration during a working day. You cook and you taste, and what you learn you can put into practice the very next morning. Beforehand, Richard maps out how the team eats and works, and afterwards he delivers an advisory report.

On-site food workshops
Energy and food awareness sessions
Analysis of eating patterns and working rhythm

Richard Jacobsen leading an outdoor movement exercise in pairs

Outdoor team day

Health & Cooking Experience

Cook together. Move together. Experience together.

A day at an outdoor location. Cooking together over fire, moving, and then sitting down to eat at one table. Richard tailors the programme to your team and to what you want the day to achieve.

A healthy lunch or dinner you make yourselves
Movement sessions for energy and focus
Tailored to your team, location and goals

Chocolate ice cream with mandarin and walnuts

For publishers, photographers and agencies

Food styling

Food you want to taste. Images you won't forget.

Richard reads the recipe, cooks the dish and builds the plate for the camera. For cookbooks, magazines, advertising and online productions. For more than ten years he has been the go-to name for publishers and agencies.

Cookbooks and magazines
Product advertising and campaigns
Recipe development

Grilled satay skewers on rice noodles with lemongrass

For brands, events and conferences

Demos & presentations

Knowledge you can see, smell, taste and remember.

Cooking demonstrations, product presentations and food presentations at events and conferences. Richard cooks while he talks, and the audience gets to taste along.

Product launches and tastings
Cooking with food surplus and outdoor cooking
High-end food presentation for events

A large group training together with wooden staffs in a bright hall

Health & Cooking Experience

Beyond team building. A day that matters.

A vital team isn't built by spending an afternoon on an activity. It grows when people experience together what good food, movement, energy and teamwork do for one another. So the day doesn't start with a presentation. It starts with doing.

Together we make lunch or dinner, outdoors and over fire, with whatever the season brings. In between, Richard leads the group through short movement exercises. Nobody has to do sport, and nobody has to win.

Get outsideA special outdoor location, chosen to suit your team.
Cook togetherOver fire, with whatever the season brings.
MoveHands-on exercises around energy and teamwork.
Eat togetherAt one table. No meeting table in sight.

Food styling & culinary production

The perfection of imperfection.

The best food images never look staged. A sauce that glistens, a herb that falls just so. For more than ten years, photographers, publishers and advertising agencies have called on Richard for the culinary side of their productions.

He has been cooking for 35 years, so he knows how a dish is built and which ingredients work on camera. And when something shouldn't look too perfect. Together with the photographer and the art director, he keeps adjusting until the plate is just right.

Cookbooks

Kook OK Rob Geus
Koken in Villa Felderhof
De Dunne Vegetariër, De Snelle en Dunne Vegetariër and De Dunne Vegan Hertsenberg & Bokma
Antipasti & Italiaans Vegetarisch Loes Janssen Miraglia
De Gezonde Bourgondiër Jacinta Bokma
Puur Brabants Product
Wijn van Eigen Bodem Mariëlla Beukers & Irene de Vette
American Bites own concept and production
Vegetarisch barbecueën Steven Raichlen
Tajine and Wild & Co Kim Maclean
Mini Pannetjes, Puur Plantaardig, Lekker zonder zout

Campaigns & brands

Nederlandse Hartstichting
Nederlandse Nierstichting
Kumar Curry's
Viva la Fish
Brood.net
Cella Vita, ProMessa, Aveleijn
Imagro, Studio Imago, Advice

All about food styling

Pan-fried sea bass fillet on creamy courgette with wild rice

On set: every production starts with reading the recipe, cooking the dish and tasting it. Only then comes the plate.

Portrait of Richard Jacobsen in chef's whites

Richard Jacobsen, founder

About Richard

Chef, food stylist, trainer. In that order.

Richard Jacobsen started out in restaurant kitchens, then worked in hotels and on international projects in Switzerland, Austria, France, England, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Along the way, he became more and more interested in what food does for people: their energy, their recovery, how they get through the day.

His starting point: people don't change because they get more information, but because they experience something for themselves and can put it to use the next day. His view on food draws on traditional knowledge, on science and on a healthy dose of down-to-earth common sense.

Background: Chef, food stylist, vitality trainer
Experience: 35+ years in hospitality, 20 years as a wellbeing trainer
Previously: Art & Cooking, Zen City Prague, Hotel Schylge, Kasteel Engelenburg
Based in: Apeldoorn, working throughout the Netherlands

Read the full story Curriculum vitae

Vision

Vitality isn't a project you squeeze in on the side.

Health only has real value if it helps you on a Tuesday afternoon at the office. That's why Health & Cooking works from three pillars. Read our vision and mission

Fooddoktor

Food as medicine

What does the body need, and what do people actually eat? Richard looks at the gap between the two and turns it into food that fits the work and rhythm of your organisation.

High-quality supplements

Targeted support

Sometimes the body needs more than food alone. Then Richard works with pure supplements, only where they are genuinely needed and never as a substitute for good food.

Mindful movement

Energy in flow

With Qi Gong and somatic movement, the body settles and starts moving freely again. Time to recover, and to feel where your energy sits once more.

Richard Jacobsen leading a Qi Gong session with participants in a circle

Richard has worked for and with, among others

Rates

Clear from the start. Tailored by agreement.

All prices excl. VAT. Travel costs from Arnhem, plus ingredients and materials, are charged separately and always agreed in advance. For complete productions and larger groups, Richard puts together a custom quote.

Fooddoktor

Vitality analysis, workshop and advisory report

€750 to €1,500 per session / location

Health & Cooking Experience

Day programme including preparation, guidance, materials and meal

€295 per person or €3,500 up to 10 people

Food styling

Cookbooks, photography, advertising, magazines and online

from €89.50 per hour

Demos & presentations

Food demos, product presentations and cooking demonstrations

from €85 per hour

High-end food presentation

For events, conferences, speakers and business gatherings

from €1,250 per event

All assignments are subject to the Health & Cooking terms and conditions. All rates and additional costs

Curious what it could do for your team?

Let's talk.

Tell us briefly what you're looking for and for how many people. Richard will get in touch and come back with a proposal that fits your request.

Richard Jacobsen +31 6 448 022 48 healthcooking@outlook.com Apeldoorn, on location throughout the Netherlands