Meet Bettina Campolucci Bordi
Welcome to a global community for foodies, home cooks, wellness seekers, and conscious brands. Whether you’re here for recipes, retreats, or real nourishment, this is your home for plant-forward living that’s fuss-free, flavour-rich, and full of soul.
Retreat chef, bestselling author, and plant-based pioneer Bettina has spent over a decade inspiring people around the world to eat better, feel better, and live more mindfully. Her approach is joyful and inclusive, blending global flavours with sustainable values and zero-waste principles.
From her early food memories in East Africa and Europe to founding Bettina’s Kitchen, she has helped thousands of people fall in love with vegetables again.
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My Food Philosophy:
Whatever your preferences, dietary needs, or level of cooking confidence. No dogma, no perfection. Just real food that brings people together. We create meals rooted in vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds — but we are flexible when it comes to thoughtful additions like dairy or eggs. It's about inclusion, not restriction.
Plant Based with Flexibility
Everything starts with plants. We create meals rooted in vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, but we are flexible when it comes to thoughtful additions like dairy or eggs. It's about inclusion, not restriction.
Seasonal and Local
We source from the land around us and cook with the rhythms of nature. This includes preserving traditions, supporting small producers, and cooking from scratch.
Waste Free
We cook root to shoot. Every part of the ingredient is valued. We honour the whole vegetable, reduce waste, and make sustainability second nature.
Wellness Focused
We create recipes that aids your gut health, keeps your mind focused and nourishes from the inside out.
Nutrient Dense + Satisfying
We layer in textures, grains, pulses and boosters so that meals nourish deeply and satisfy fully. Wellness is in the detail, flavour, substance, and soul.
Fuss Free and Inclusive
Our food is simple, beautiful and welcoming to all — whatever your preferences, dietary needs, or level of cooking confidence. No dogma, no perfection. Just real food that brings people together.
Bring Your Brand to Life Through Food, Values, and Story
I partner with food, wellness, and hospitality brands that want to create real impact, not just content. My consultancy and brand partnerships blend strategic insight with years of hands-on experience to help brands communicate consciously, cook inclusively, and build meaningful relationships with their audience. We do everything from recipe development, pop us, takeovers, corporate, partnerships events and much more. Bettinas has worked with some of the biggest brands in the Wellness and food sphere.
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Step Into the Kitchen and Start a Purpose-Led Career
The Retreat Chef Academy is a transformational, hands-on training program designed for aspiring food creatives and chefs who want to make a meaningful impact through food.Led by Bettina herself, this 8 day intensive course covers everything in regards to retreat cheffing from cooking plant-based nutrient dense recipes, using and sourcing seasonal ingredients, retreat kitchen management, budgeting, how to enter the biggest growing wellness industry and much more.
Experience the magic of my retreats
Bettina’s retreats are immersive, soul-nourishing journeys that blend food, healing, and culture. The Bali Retreat nestled on Bali’s wild west coast, this retreat is a true reset. Guests are invited to slow down, reconnect, and be deeply cared for through plant-based meals, sunrise yoga, Balinese fire ceremonies, healing sessions and much more. Also discover Bettina’s newly Launched Japan Retreat. This is more than a holiday, it's a transformational experience where every detail is designed to help you come home to yourself.
Get inspired in the kitchen and rediscover the joy of plant based cooking. Learn how to create waste-free, nutrient-dense recipes.
Join the Bettina’s Kitchen Online Hub your go-to space for plant-based cooking courses, recipes, recipe videos, all 3 of Bettina's Best Selling cookbooks, resources, and a supportive community that meets you wherever you are on your food journey.
Explore some of my favourite Recipes
All recipes focus on seasonality, abundnace and making veggies the Hero ingreidnts onto as many plates as possible.
