#RefindingFood
IT’S TIME TO CHANGE HOW WE SPEAK AND THINK ABOUT FOOD, FARMING, HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY.
How To Butcher, Cut, and Cook Pork, Goat and Lamb
In the last three years, I’ve learned a lot about food, farming and agriculture. It’s only recently that I’ve begun to write about it. While most people would have documented the process end-to-end, learning about food production and the sciences related to it was...
Raising Heritage Pork & Being a Female Farmer in Washington
For me, 2020 is a year that’s going down in history. Like you, I’ll never forget what it was like to live through global pandemic, the largest civil and human rights movements of the last two decades, and having to learn to isolate myself from others. Before all...
When It Comes to Your Pantry, Focus On Essentials
It never ceases to amaze me how complicated we make food, health, and nutrition. It even trickles over into what we have in our kitchens to cook with. Believe it or not, you may think that your kitchen has to be stocked with tons of different things to make fantastic...
How to Fix Your Broken Relationship with Food
In my last blog post, I talked about how women's relationship with food became so fragmented and broken, especially for multi-ethnic women over 40, like myself. In this post, we’re going to go through a series of questions and exercises that can help begin to heal...
How Your Relationship With Food Became So Broken
It’s 2020, and we, as women, we’re taking our health into our own hands. We’re trying to make more informed decisions; we’re ditching healthcare for self-care, we’re trading in prescription drugs for CBD. When it comes to our food we’re eating better, for...
How I Fell In Love With Food & Health
Did you know that every superhero has an origin story? You know, the story of who they are, where they began, and how they became who they are. As I started writing Love Food, Love Yourself, one of my editors told said to me: This book is going to totally suck unless...
Love Food, Love Yourself: A Simple Guide to Women’s Nutrition
So I've done it. I've written my first book. It was almost a year in the making. I've always wanted to write books. I never wanted a big publisher, fame and money wasn't the goal. Writing for me has always been deeply personal, so I simply wanted to create short books...
Plant-Based vs. Beef: What’s Really In Your Burger?
In the past year, I’ve watched the conversations around real meat and plant-based meat alternatives become one of the most talked about food trends of the year. True to media hype and Silicon Valley chatter, the headlines and the venture capital have become overblown....
Evaluating the Effects of Sugar, Alcohol, and Caffeine on Your Body
Food is something that I have a love affair with. When I made the decision to develop a better relationship with it and understand about how truly impacts my body, I never knew just how far it would go. What I thought would be a simple three-month, self-guided...