Chef Dionne Knox

It’s said that when you’re born you come into the world knowing exactly what you’re supposed to do with your life. Due to numerous distractions, most of us take detours on our journeys spending quite a lot of time trying to discover our way back to that knowingness. Chef Dionne Knox, owner of Zella’s Soulful Kitchen, has spent over 12 years working in both the nonprofit sector and in the food industry. She worked in her family’s catering business part-time and established her own catering business in 2005.

At the young age of 8 years old, Chef Dionne remembers spending most of her time in the kitchen with her grandmother Zella, cooking meals and baking delicious desserts. Zella was a dynamic chef known for cooking everything from scratch. She grew fresh vegetables in her garden, raised chickens for fresh eggs, made her own jam, baked bread every day and churned her own butter. Honoring her legacy, Chef Dionne follows in her grandmother’s footsteps creating Farm- Fresh Handcrafted Soul Food using seasonal and locally produced ingredients.