Category: Food
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Making Your Own Soda
While having lunch at Loulay in Seattle, I became inspired by my husband’s beverage choice. He was drinking one of their house-made sodas. Cranberry-ginger or maybe it was pomegranate-lime, I forget. A tall glass with ice is served with a large carafe of very bubbly soda water and a smaller pitcher containing the flavored syrup.…
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Selective Breeding VS Genetic Modification
It’s been a loooooong time since my last blog post – March of last year to be precise. I really have no decent excuse except life happened. The two major things that occurred within that time; I got a certificate from the University of Washington in Food, Health and Wellness and my husband and I…
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Signs of the Times, Food Labels to Know
I know it has been a while since I have last posted, but I’ve got a good excuse. I’ve been in school. I have been in a year-long certificate course from the University of Washington in Food, Health and Wellness. I started last fall, taking Nutrition. I just finished Molecular Gastronomy and I am about…
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New York, Part 2
Day four of our seven-day trip in NYC, we headed to the East Village to Chef-owner David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar. Momofuku is his group of award winning restaurants. Those in NY are: Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Má Pêche, Momofuku Ko, Milk Bar, and Booker & Dax. “Momofuku” could be translated from Japanese…
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New York, Part 1
For ages I have wanted to go to New York. In my dancing years, I longed to visit The Big Apple and call myself a true artist – one who had made the pilgrimage to visit the Holy Grail of arts and culture in the United States. In more recent years, while watching cooking and…
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Uwajimaya
My husband and I have spent a great deal of time in Seattle. This summer is proving to be quite spectacular, as there is no finer place than The Emerald City on a gorgeous warm summer day. With the Puget Sound, Mt. Rainer, the Olympic Mountains, Pike Place Market, a ton of amazing restaurants as…
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Book Report: Eating on the Wild Side
On a recent road trip to Ashland, OR my husband Michael and I were having dinner with friends. We are a healthy (mind & body) bunch of folks, so many of our conversations were about food and diet. Our friend Kyle mentioned that he was reading a book about the nutritional content of today’s fruits…
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Nutrition 101
I recently finished a FREE, six-week on-line nutrition class. Offered by Coursera.org through Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (in Nashville, TN) the class was officially titled Nutrition, Health & Lifestyle. Head nutrition instructor, Jamie Pope taught the class and offered down to earth lectures that were factual and engaging. I took this course for a…
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Butterflies, Sushi and Space Shuttles Oh My!
If you are ever in or near Seattle, WA and are in need of something to do, allow me to make a few suggestions. This last weekend my husband Michael and I had a pretty fun-filled few days in Seattle. We started off by seeing the Flight of the Butterflies 3-D IMAX short movie at…
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