Shaya Klechevsky

Teaches at JCC Culinary Arts

Chef Shaya Klechevsky is the chef-owner of Brooklyn based At your Palate LLC, a gourmet kosher personal chef and catering service. He has been featured on the Food Network show Chopped. Chef Shaya grew up in New York surrounded by a family from diverse cultural roots - his mother is from Egypt, and his father from Poland. He spent hours in the kitchen alongside his mother who prepared bountiful, but classic Sabbath evening meals accompanied by traditional Middle-Eastern and Polish side dishes.