Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage
Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage is a small market gardening, gourmet food business specializing in cooking, herbs, spices, olive oils, vinegar, international liquors, and homegrown food. We are a shoppe that offers classes, gastronomic travel, educational, and artistic culinary events.
We specialize in baking, cooking, and gardening.
Nancy AE Berberet Mayfield ~ The Founder & Creative Director of Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage and Silver Slipper Travel LLC
From the time I was seven years old, I was baking and cooking with my mother in her kitchen. I also spent many Illinois summers on a family farm where vegetable gardening and having a garden were a simple way of life and an annual ritual. Foraging wild strawberries and blackberries for cobbler and pies, jellies and jams, all part of that ritual. From planting seeds in the soil to harvesting and preserving, my summers were filled with eager anticipation for the results of those simple rituals.
As I grew up, this love of food and gardening was firmly ingrained in me and sent me on a trajectory that has put me where I am now as the Founder and Creative Director of Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage. I have passionately educated myself on all things culinary, from a Mastery in Herbalism to the Art of Gastronomy and a geographical understanding of food from ground to table. I love to challenge myself, and what I don’t know, I’ve learned by self-educating, and I am most passionate about pastry, sourdough bread, olive oil, viniculture, vinegars, and spices. That learning journey will never end. I now own a 120 acre farm in Mendocino County California, the possibilities are unimaginable in how that can and will become a platform to teach others the love and passion that I have for all things cooking, baking, gourmet, gastronomy and gardening.
Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage, is a boutique brand where gourmet food, baking, cooking, and gardening converge into a curated culinary experience. With a focus on French, Italian, Scottish & Greek bakery, gastronomic traditions, and artistry. My goal is to create a taste and travel experience that blends heritage and offers clients meaningful connections through food, craft, and geography.
In addition to my work at Bleu’ Alchemy Cottage, I lead Silver Slipper Travel LLC, a premier travel concierge specializing in luxury, gastronomy, and curated international experiences. With multiple years as an Executive Assistant working and handling the travel for fast-paced global jet-setting executives, my knowledge and understanding of meticulously organizing, planning, developing travel, logistics and itineraries for corporate level executives and their families, as well as event planning, I now apply that expertise in the luxury, gastronomy, and curated international travel world. Across both ventures, my goal is the same: to design with purpose, create with intention, and transform everyday moments into enduring experiences.
