I chose Madre Chocolate to include in my Vegan Mexican Pop-up Dinner after learning all about how they make the chocolate bean to bar. They are very supportive of fair and clean food from the farmers to their own production. I’m so excited to use their Xoconusco chocolate in my mole sauce! Vanilla beans A [...]
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)
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 [...]
I remember as a young girl in the 70′s, my mother used a pressure cooker. I also remember that if I got anywhere near the kitchen during this time, she would emotionally assert, “BE CAREFUL. IT MIGHT EXPLODE.” She said this with good reason as the old style of pressure cookers truly did explode. [...]
COMMON OBJECTIONS The top objections that I frequently hear to cooking and living healthier are: “It’s too expensive.” “It’s too difficult.” “It takes a long time and I’m too busy.” (photos made by Alice Inoue from our Food & Feng Shui event) THE ‘WHY’? While these are all important realities for us in a variety [...]
Monday wasn’t the best day for me, but my father always says, “Get a good night’s sleep. Things will look different the following day.” Hearing his voice, I went to bed early and when I got up on Tuesday and went outside, the first thing I saw was my orchid had bloomed in triplicate! So [...]
The magazine Whole Living reports that when women who are trying to lose weight eat meals they’ve made at home (especially lunch), they drop 5 pounds a year more than women who eat out. Those who eat regular meals every day lost 8 pounds more. (This is probably true for men as well given that [...]
Here are a few images of the food from today’s side dishes class. The menu was: Holiday Rice Artichoke and Heart of Palm Salad Pumpkin Coconut Bisque Christmas Parsnip Soup Sweet Potato Casserole with Mapled Pecans Oven Baked Squash Also the second side dishes class included: Cranberry Chutney; Green Beans w/Pumpkin Seed Dressing; Mashed Potatoes [...]
If you’ve been to my cooking classes, you probably know how much I love parsley! Here are the reasons why: Parsley’s volatile oils qualify it as a “chemoprotective” food, and in particular, a food that can help neutralize particular types of carcinogens (like the benzopyrenes that are part of cigarette smoke and charcoal grill smoke). [...]
I was very lucky to return last week to Reppun Farm a place that seems somewhat like heaven on earth (land which is stewarded by the Reppun brothers, who are much more than local organic farmers)! I was there learning about the chocolate making process with Dave of Madre Chocolate. It was wonderful to gulp [...]
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