Hailing from South Carolina, Meredith Baird has had a lifelong passion for gourmet vegetarian cuisine. After college she left the traditional route to pursue her passion and became certified as a raw food chef and instructor. Infusing her innate stylistic talent and food sensibility was a natural marriage.She pursued her culinary career in Napa Valley where she was able to incorporate her knowledge and love of wine into a healthy lifestyle and gourmet cuisine. After California she moved to New York to join the Matthew Kenney team. Since 2008 Meredith has been an integral part of the Matthew Kenney Lifestyle brand. She has assisted in writing several books with Matthew, as well as in opening the Matthew Kenney Restaurant and Academy. Intermixed with her passion for food is a great love of design.

She has been an integral part of the restaurant design on several cutting edge sustainable projects. She believes in living life beautifully both internally and externally by nourishing yourself with life-filled, health-giving, beautiful food, while at the same time allowing yourself aesthetic pleasure through art, fashion, photography, music, and design. She feels very fortunate that her life's work is all about doing just that.