Rachel has been a natural foods chef, cooking instructor, freelance food and health writer, and cooking coach and speaker for more than 20 years. She has led more than 800 cooking classes in five states, and published more than 225 articles in national magazines and regional papers, including Natural Home, Living Without, The Herb Companion, Herbs for Health, Yoga Journal, Lets Live, Oxygen Womens Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Conscious Choice, Well Being Journal, Veggie Life, Vegetarian Times, Vegetarian Journal, and Macrobiotics Today. Her articles also appeared in Fit, New Body, and Vegetarian Gourmet, which are no longer in print.

Rachels earlier works include Gourmet Wholefoods, Cooking with Rachel, and The Nourishment for Life Cookbook. Only Cooking with Rachel is still in print. Rachel developed 130 recipes for two books by best-selling author Barry Sears, including 90 recipes for Zone Meals in Seconds (Harper-Collins, 2004). She co-authored The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet and Cookbook (Planetary Press, 2004) with Don Matesz, which won the USA Book News Best Cookbook 2004, and a Glyph Award for Best Cookbook in May, 2005.

Rachel lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a faculty member of the nutrition department at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe. She leads group and private cooking classes, cooking parties, dinner parties, and healthy shopping tours. She coaches clients in their kitchens, speaks to groups about healthy eating, and appears as the Healthy Chef on Channel 3, Your Life A to Z, in Phoenix.