Returning food to the sacred
Sign up below! I’ll have a lovely fat and juicy book for you in the email on November 26th! For years I’ve hinted that I was writing this book. For years, I’ve put the site on the back burner, started and stopped, sputtered and put it away to pick up the project once more. I’ve […]
I’m noticing how challenging this new schedule has become for me and for having dinner in the evening together. And by challenging I mean, that it hasn’t lent itself to some sort of orderly routine. In Maui, I had finally struck gold for myself in the daily schedule department. Waking up at 5AM I had […]
The practice of checking in with yourself after you eat. How do you feel after you eat? Most of you are familiar with the sensation of being stuffed, bloated, or tired after eating. Jokingly, (though really it isn’t a joke), you use these feelings as evidence that the meal was good and you loved it […]
It’s raining. A lot. Coming from 10 weeks in California where they are experiencing a catastrophic drought, the climate here in Maui is a shocking contrast. It has rained here every single night since I returned home two weeks ago. Every. Single. Night. There is much symbolism in this for me. The stress and exhaustion […]
Until this week I was a board member of Slow Food Maui for over 3 years. Being part of this organization has been an honor and an educational experience that continues to shape me and my food philosophy in so many ways, it’s almost impossible to enumerate. And though I feel like I’ve been a […]
Traveling through Italy for almost 2 months was a revelation on too many levels to enumerate. I’m still processing my time there and can’t wait to go back. Obviously the biggest lessons and experiences there centered around food as I was sent as a delegate to the 2014 Slow Food Terra Madre conference. But the […]
Like ‘organic’, ‘natural’ and ‘sustainable’, the word ‘local’ has become a catch phrase that food marketers think is cool because it sells. It does. But here’s why: Resource, economy, community and earth conscious people tend to want food that is local. This means it didn’t travel for however long in a box, it didn’t tax […]
One of the best things about traveling is discovering new food. The exposure to other ethnic cuisine and the vibrant creativity of culinary artists broadens the world and my relationship to cooking and pleasure. It’s like discovering new art you’ve never imagined before and it’s just thrilling. While in Bangkok, Omu Rice was this kind […]
Very soon after arriving back in Maui from our 4 month adventure in SE Asia I flew to California to attend a women’s retreat. Four days at a lovely high desert retreat center with nothing to do but sink into practices and teachings designed to stretch, deepen and shake up my very stuck spots. […]
