High Vibe Kitchen seasons the community

High Vibe Kitchen is known for its seasoning line designed to help people add flavor to their foods. Rebekah Gillette, who is a chef by education, believes that all foods, even healthy foods, should taste delicious. She has a goal of getting the community to enjoy eating good protein, good vegetables, and healthy fats. Her goal is to make food attainable to everyone.

“The main thing is it has to be good,” she said. “If food isn’t good, nobody’s gonna eat it, nobody’s gonna buy it, and nobody’s gonna want it. It has to be delicious.”

Rebekah believes that sprinkling seasoning gives a personal accomplishment to anyone who thinks they can’t cook.

“It’s not that they can’t cook, they just don’t know how to season,” she said. “We take the guesswork out of the seasoning component so that part is manageable.”

The seasonings of High Vibe Kitchen are versatile. They can enhance any protein, vegetable, or starch. They are pure, organic, and made with vitamins and minerals. They are catered to people who need to follow a low FODMAP (short-chain sugars). Short-chain sugars are found in ingredients such as garlic, onions, and shallots. Rebekah replaces them with spices and citrus so the seasonings can still remain flavorful.

High Vibe Kitchen has a variety of blends with suggested ways to use them. One example is One Love BBQ. It is good for burgers, steaks, chicken, pork and venison. For vegetables, it is suggested for roasted potatoes, butternut squash, and corn on the cob.

A blend called South Sea Surprise is good for baked, grilled, or boiled fish or shellfish, fried rice, noodles, and grilled vegetables.

Persian Prince is suggested for grape leaves, hummus, tabouli salad, and condiments such as tzatziki and ranch dressing.

The seasonings are currently sold at Everything Natural in Clarks Summit.

Rebekah launched High Vibe Kitchen in 2019 by direct sales and spice tastings. But when COVID occurred the following year, Rebekah couldn’t do one-on-one sales anymore. Plus, the package wasn’t designed for retail. She had to put the company on a short halt so she could repackage seasonings blends break down the product to the ‘bare bones’.

“I essentially built a packaging into something that would be suitable for retail or suitable for direct sales,” she said “It was a really big process in a lot of levels because I do my own photos and I do my own cooking shows.”

Rebekah added a line of instant blends while maintaining the original product line. She also has a mobile kitchen to take the seasonings on the road.

“The mobile kitchen and the seasoning line are one in the same,” she said. “They really just support one another.”

Some of the dishes made in the mobile kitchen are made with the seasoning blends. One of the staple dishes is the brisket, which is sourced locally. It is served with beans, rice and chimichurri sauce. Guacamole boats, which are stuffed with veggie chips, are also popular. Customers pick the seasonings to put on them.

For the upcoming Harford Fair, the mobile kitchen will add Mexican street corn with their Latin seasoning blend as well as crunchy fried bananas with hot honey butter and whipped cream.

“We try to keep the food from the food trailer nourishing but fun,” said Rebekah.

High Vibe Kitchen plans to soon make grab-and-go meals at Everything Natural.

Rebekah has much help with the mobile kitchen from her family members such as her husband Walter Casper, who is the operations and logistics manager. Her daughter Bella Weldy is her right-hand woman managing calls, events, and spice production.

Rebekah worked in various levels of the food industry.

“Food has always been my art form since I was a little girl,” she said.

Rebekah graduated from culinary school in 2000. She was a personal chef for years. She worked in catering as well as restaurants. She taught cooking classes in schools. She hopes to go back to teaching in the future.

“My culinary purpose has been an evolution,” she said. “I learned things from each chapter.”