#RefindingFood
IT’S TIME TO CHANGE HOW WE SPEAK AND THINK ABOUT FOOD, FARMING, HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY.
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...
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...
Humanely Raised, Humanely Slaughtered?
Understand how the meat you eat is harvested. The slaughter process is more humane than most people think, but it is still disturbing for most. Many people wonder, "Can it be more humane than it currently is?" Well, many countries are working on that. Read the article...
11 Meal Delivery Services Who’s Food You’ll Want To Eat In 2020
In 2019, the evolution of the meal kit had fully arrived in the form of meal delivery and subscription services. Due to COVID-19, this once struggling food delivery model has become profitable, and revenue is up as much as 300%. For those of you who are now,...
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...
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...
Find CSAs, Farmers Markets, and Butcher Shops Around Seattle
Last year, I identified four major food trends that were forever changing grocery stores. In that article, I talked about the revival of butcher shops and shopping at farmers' markets. In late February, the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. and we shut down our...