When my friend Ashley sold her share of Baby aWEARness, my space for cooking demos went “aloha”! I was trying not to worry about this (even with all the people asking, “Why isn’t anything on your calendar?” when one day, Melanie Kosaka called me and let me know about her new business Cookspace Hawaii that [...]
Here are some photos taken by various people from the pop-up dinner on 1/24 at Taste. Thanks to everyone who attended. It was so much fun. (Various photos by Amanda Corby, Kaimana Pine, Melissa Chang, Megumi Kurachi)
Vandana Shiva arrived here on Oahu 1/15/2013 hosted by Hawaii SEED to share her wisdom with us about issues central to food sovereignty. She inspired those of us in the room with so much information I could hardly keep up with my note taking! Some of the main points that I gleaned I’ll share here [...]
K.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple Sista! Today I was talking to someone who does her menu planning every Sunday and she actually whipped out her notes there on the spot. As a result, I just about had a happiness heart attack. Picture me …. Click. I took a picture of it with a little hop [...]
When was the moment in my life where changing my diet made a real results-producing difference? I was thinking back to this, and when my life truly started to become really awesome was actually when I started to eat brown rice. It sounds completely strange and a little woo woo, I know. But here’s the [...]
What is it about this plant, lemongrass, that is rocking my world right now?! I can’t seem to get enough of this delicious flavor, especially in soup. While sipping my homemade Thai-style vegan Tom-Yum, I decided to look up the health benefits out of curiosity. It’s power packed with goodness! Here’s what a couple of [...]
I’ve put together a set of recipes that I’ve never shared before, until now, that highlight some of the deliciousness I learned during my macrobiotic studies in Japan. Some of the dishes are pictured here. I explain what the symbolism is for certain ingredients as well as recipes. The dishes eaten during the first few days [...]
Health Scientific studies are now starting to implicate genetically modified foods to infertility Studies show conventionally grown food has lower nutrient value High fat and sugar diets lead to obesity, hypoglycemia and diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, digestive distress, among many other common lifestyle related illnesses (Plant-based diets prevent and reverse the same ailments.) There are [...]
The What Whole foods are unprocessed and unrefined and come to us from as close to the source as possible. In contrast, processed foods are genetically modified, colored, made by synthetic means, or laden with hormone additives. White flour, sugar, white rice, most cold cereals, crackers, and packaged foods are processed, for example, and even [...]
I consistently run into people these days who are truly scared and unwilling to eat tofu! This concerns me as it’s an excellent protein source and Asian countries that consume tofu and other soy products have low rates of breast cancer in particular. Further, I worked for 3 years at the Cancer Research Center [...]
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