Some days ago while reading about cooking history, I stumbled upon an unfamiliar term - Kitchenalia. This term, which I haven't seen before, inspired me to write about it. Kitchenalia, a term derived from 'kitchen' and 'alia' (paraphernalia), encompasses the cooking...
How do you prepare your grains? What the preparation process of grains can teach you? We understand nowadays the negative effects on our health of refined cereals like bread made with refined (bleached flour) wheat, white rice or polished pearl barley. These effects...
When I learned to cook very early in my life, there were two beliefs I had about sharpening the knife: 1) It was something dangerous and I didn’t have the skills and 2) I didn’t make time or find it boring. Then, I spent years taking the knife to the nearest butcher...
How can we practice and embody a way of living with less effort and conscious and effective actions? Wu wei: Effortless Living Wu wei, which means in Chinese "inexertion", "inaction", or "effortless action" is the key concept at the heart of the philosophy of Daoism....
When talking about a Sacred Kitchen or using cooking as a spiritual practice, I mean to do the washing, the peeling, the chopping, the steaming…everything, wholeheartedly and with intention or purpose to the extent that we are in communion with our spirit. A communion...
Who could imagine that the little, tiny sesame seed holds the potential to unleash hidden treasures when we cook with it? How do you use the phrase “open sesame’? Today I want to share a bit of storytelling to unlock the hidden treasures behind the words and the food…...
When we incorporate little bits of goodness on a daily basis, we work with the gentleness and cleverness of nature. So, eat your food as medicine in every meal and you don’t have to eat medicine as food in the future. This recipe, which I learned from a Cambodian...
Follow your Bliss The term “follow your bliss,” was coined by Joseph Campbell, a well-known mythology teacher who saw it as a crucial part of living life to the fullest. In his words: If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there...