Mafalda Pinto Leite

Mafalda Pinto Leite is a world-traveling chef, mama, sustainable lifestyle leader, and passionate food educator. This mother of four has been researching, cooking, writing, and teaching about food, natural beauty, and wellness for the last twenty years.

Mafalda attended school for health-supportive culinary education at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC. In 2000, she graduated as a Certified Culinary Chef and Nutritional Practitioner. Then after fourteen years of nonstop evolution, she became a Certified Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Culinary Nutritionist and Herbalist.

After cooking school, she did her internship at The Millennium Restaurant, an award-winning gourmet vegan restaurant. She moved to Maui, where she worked at an exclusive yoga retreat and spa and then as a chef of Mana Foods, an iconic natural foods store in Paia. Next, in London, she worked at Jamie Oliver’s first restaurant Monte’s and at the bookshop Books for Cooks. She went back to New York in search of more in-depth knowledge of raw foods, where she worked for Mathew Kenney at The Plant and at the now closed Pure Food and Wine.

Mafalda now resides in Portugal, where she has six published books that have won several awards like the Gourmand World Award for Best Health and Nutrition Book, Tv Chef and Photography.

In 2014, she created her own online shop, Puro Sumo, a resource for potent transformational foods for those seeking beauty, wellness, and longevity, to fulfill her own need to have access to the best affordable superfoods in the world through a simple click. She also began offering sold out online workshops to empower people to nourish themselves daily with potent transformational plant-based beauty foods and high powered natural remedies.