Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.
Food is culture, and we need to listen to it.
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
I fell in love with food because of my mother. So, I will definitely be sharing and expanding more recipes from my culture (as well as many other cultures), and will be sharing recipes that I have experienced from my whole culinary life.
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.
I'm a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.
