“I’m on a mission to create great food and help you heal through the power of delicious food. As far as I’m concerned, food is a vessel for enjoyment, healing and love. It is a tool that facilitates mind-body synergy. And it should always be absolutely delicious.” This is the philosophy of Vee Culinary’s Chef Vedam Clementi (Steve Clements) of Atlanta and the North Georgia Mountains.

Chef Vedam recently won $10,000 on a TV show featuring chefs, The Rat in the Kitchen, to put an exclamation point to his skills.

He offers gluten-free services as a personal chef, catering, personal or group cooking classes, and wrote a cookbook with his recipes. It’s available along with special products on his website, veeculinary.com.

Chef Vedam grew up in Gloucester where he was raised on a farm. “From an early age I learned to appreciate farm-to-table food, before there was a name for it and the value of bringing family together at the table.”

He graduated from Gloucester High School in 1...