Heart and Soul Catering & Events has a nationwide network of culinary professionals, event planners, and commercial kitchen facilities dedicated to bringing your event to life. The company is a licensed, certified, and insured business based in Miramar, FL with a national reach. We offer catering, personal chef services, retreats, and events that are good for your heart & soul. The company is led by Chef Cassandra Caldwell who has over 25 years of hospitality experience.

Chef Cassandra spent over 20 years as a diversity and inclusion executive and consultant before deciding to pursue her passion for culinary arts and hospitality. When she is not pursuing her hospitality passion, she teaches and chairs doctoral dissertation committees at several universities online. Hospitality has been in her blood since she started cooking at 10 years old in her mother’s kitchen. From the time she made her first meal, a T-bone steak with mashed potatoes and string beans, her love of cooking has grown over four decades.

Chef Cassandra has traveled the globe and experienced hospitality & cuisines in five-star restaurants and hotels on four continents and 16 countries. She infuses global spices and recipes into her cooking that focuses on healthy food that is good for your heart and soul. She is a certified ServSafe Food Manager and has studied at Johnson & Wales University and The Biltmore Culinary Academy. Her current affiliations include: The National Restaurant Association, The National Association for Catering & Events, and the United States Personal Chef Association. Chef Cassandra also earned three degrees prior to her culinary career change including: a Ph.D. in human and community resource development from The Ohio State University; a M.P.A. in public administration from North Carolina Central University; and a B.A. in speech communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Hospitality has always been mixed into her career path in a variety of ways and she has been a restaurant owner, line cook, bartender, server, instructor, hospitality industry recruiting executive, food truck vendor, festival vendor, event planner, and hotel auditor.