Sea Vegetables: A Dairy Free Source of Calcium

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  This upcoming weekend at The Natural Gourmet Cooking School is all about Sea Vegetables, a topic near and dear to my heart!  I love introducing my private cooking clients to these underutilized, nutritional powerhouses!  Most people I work with have either never had them before or their experience has been limited to the seaweed [...]

Raw Foods: What Is All The Hype About?

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So exactly what is all the hype about raw foods? Is this just some fashionable new age mumbo jumbo that sounds impressive when chatting up your hot yoga teacher or is there something more to it? Most of the general population wonders why anyone in their right mind would want to follow such a regime…it [...]

How to Keep Salads From Getting Boring

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If you were told that all you could eat this week for lunch and dinner was salad, would you cringe at the idea thinking “oh my god, how boring” or would your creative juices start to flow and relish the thought of coming up with new culinary sensations everyday? Salads are NEVER boring! I’m not [...]

The Healing Power of an Alkaline Diet

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Lately, I’ve been investing a significant amount of time and energy into expanding my base of knowledge about the healing effect food can have on your body and learning a variety of culinary techniques to keep vegan cuisine from getting boring. My mission is not to open a vegan restaurant or become a raw foods [...]