Comments on: "Culinary Literacy"

By: Gena

Gena — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:26:52 +0000

Love that dressing! What a nice day of eats.

My own love of food also came from a struggle with not loving food enough. It also came with discovering veganism and realizing that food could make me feel well, rather than unwell.

By: Bod Pod Fun « Broccoli Hut

Bod Pod Fun « Broccoli Hut — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:43:51 +0000

[...] A few weeks ago, I experimented with apples in my curry. I liked it so much that I decided to incorporate apples again, this time using Ginger Gold apples, which complemented the cinnamon-y aspect of garam masala. I also added curry powder and paprika. chickpea-apple curry; whole wheat pita; greens with squash & red pepper vinaigrette [...]

By: glidingcalm

glidingcalm — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:34:47 +0000

omg those spring rolls look amazinggggggg! and thai dressing sounds so bomb too!!

HURRAY FOR CURRY TIME!!!!!!

By: elise

elise — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:59:22 +0000

i think my mom played a huge role in my passion for cooking and food. she was (is) a vegetarian and cooked dinner for the family every night. she encouraged us to help in the kitchen, and then as we got older, we each had a night to make dinner.

i never realized how rare this was until i moved away and discovered none of my friends could do anything in the kitchen. i found it sad that boiling water for pasta was considered talent in their eyes, but i guess i should be lucky that my mom had the time and energy to start me off on the right foot.

By: Ruby Red

Ruby Red — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:04:21 +0000

Annie’s Papaya Poppyseed dressing is so magical!
I’ve always loved food. My first nutrition class made me fall further in love, before I switched to nutrition as my major, and eating at vegan restaurants in Minneapolis made me fall in love with the veg culinary movement…and I had to teach myself to cook to learn how to make culinary delights such as tempeh, kale, carob chip cookies…ya know. The vegan staples were so exciting and exotic to me that I just got sucked in to the whole vegan thing! Hamburgers and hot dogs and french fries just seemed so everyday and boring to me, and veggies and healthful cooking were an exciting adventure I was sooo excited to embark on!

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:09:40 +0000

Yummy on those summer rolls! I’m gonna be trying your recipe for the overnight crockpot pumpkin oats this weekend…I’ll let you know how it turns out

By: janetha

janetha — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:39:23 +0000

i like the background on how you became to love cooking. you are great at it. i have always loved it, i wanted to have a restaurant my whole life and i would write up menus and hand them out to the neighbors. i called it “janetha’s place” and my family still asks me to this day if “janetha’s place” is open!

apple coconut curry? phenom.

By: Mitri

Mitri — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:58:40 +0000

I became really interested in cooking from helping my mom out in the kitchen as a kid, especially with baking delicious treats

By: Kailey

Kailey — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:22:31 +0000

wow your breakfast looks fabulous!! thanks for leaving the recipe in the earlier post too

have a lovely thursday!

By: Rosalie

Rosalie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:55:43 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t care about food/cooking before I got an ED. At first, the food obsession was borne of a period of restriction, and I spent a lot of time analyzing nutrition, adding up this-and-that, eating strange combinations, reading menus, etc. but gradually, my relationship with food has morphed into a healthy one as my disordered behaviors decreased.

but anyway! I agree that colleges have very gourmet/good quality food now! In fact, there were quite a few vegs/grains that I never tried until I got to duke. I think the marketplace has a “whole grains night” one day and had like 10 or so different grains that you could elect to put into a saute. I was fascinated. I always joke about how when I’m at Duke I’m basicaxlly eating out 3 meals a day and I’ll probably never be able to do that after I graduate (I could, I guess, but without the obligatory food points, who wants to spend 20$/day on food? ;p)