Scott Uehlein is corporate chef for the celebrated Canyon Ranch Health Resorts and SpaClubs. He oversees the food and beverage programs for current and future Canyon Ranch properties. Canyon Ranch operates two destination health resorts as well as two land-based SpaClub facilities and one sea-based SpaClub facility onboard Queen Mary 2. Canyon Ranch's first healthy living residential community, Canyon Ranch Living, will open in 2007 in Miami Beach, Florida.
Chef Uehlein received his culinary training at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, where he graduated in 1985.
Chef Uehlein joined Canyon Ranch as executive chef at Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, Arizona in 1999. Prior to joining Canyon Ranch, he served as executive chef at Los Abrigados Resort in Sedona, Arizona for six years. In 1991, Chef Uehlein studied with famed chef, Madeleine Kamman, at her school for American chefs, located at the Beringer Vineyards in Napa Valley, CA. In 1996, he prepared a James Beard House dinner for the Great Hotels of America series. On two occasions, Chef Uehlein traveled to Japan at the invitation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to teach seminars on the preparation of American and Southwestern foods.
In 2000, Canyon Ranch was recognized by Gourmet magazine as the World's Best Spa. The prestigious magazine noted that Chef Uehlein and his staff "have brought Canyon Ranch cuisine into a new dimension." In 2001, the readers of Travel + Leisure magazine voted Canyon Ranch in Tucson the Top Spa for Food in the United States. The January 2003 issue of Bon Appetit magazine featured Chef Uehlein in an article entitled "The Spa Who Loved Me."
Chef Uehlein has made guest appearances on a variety of television shows, including "Sara's Secrets" and "Best of with Jill Cordes" on the Food Network, E! Entertainment Television and NBC-TV. He has also been featured on numerous local and regional cooking programs. For two years, he hosted a weekly cooking segment on KGUN 9 News at Noon, a Tucson ABC affiliate. In addition, he has been featured in national and international newspapers and magazines such as Bon Appetit, Self, Fitness, Food Arts, Esquire, Nation's Restaurant News, Chef Magazine and Health & Fitness UK.
Chef Uehlein is co-author of Canyon Ranch Cooks (Rodale Books, October 2003.)
For more than 20 years, Canyon Ranch has been world-renowned as a leader in the healthy gourmet cuisine movement. The Canyon Ranch kitchens are legendary for continual innovation, quality and freshness of all ingredients and, quite simply, for great cooking. An intense, ongoing collaboration among Canyon Ranch chefs, nutritionists and professional staff produces food that's wholesome, exquisitely prepared and good for body and soul.
The celebrated Canyon Ranch offers vacations dedicated to healthy living. Guests enjoy an array of indoor and outdoor fitness activities and classes, hiking, biking, swimming and tennis programs, luxurious spa and body treatments, nutritious gourmet dining and private consultations and workshops with medical and wellness experts.