Walk into your local grocery store, what do you see? Aisles and aisles of food, the option to eat anything you could ever want. This is a relatively new experience in our existence, many people see this abundance as a positive thing. We no longer have to go out and forage or hunt food forContinue reading “Community-Based Food Systems: A Benefit or a Detriment?”
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The Restaurants of the Future: Community and Sustainability Focused
Over the past year since my last blog post, I’ve quit my old job, tried to make a living off of my writing, failed. Worked as a Doordash Driver and home cook, and finally started a new job as a Front of House Manager at a casual/fine dining sushi restaurant. In this time, I’ve beenContinue reading “The Restaurants of the Future: Community and Sustainability Focused”
Life and Blog Updates
Hey everyone! I haven’t posted in quite some time now. I’ve had an extremely busy past year and was struggling to find the motivation to write amongst everything else that was going on. But nonetheless, I apologize for the lack of content. I’m planning on posting more frequently now and hopefully bringing in some freshContinue reading “Life and Blog Updates”
When Food Becomes Medicine
Growing up as the son of an internal medicine physician, I would always hear of the importance of medicine. How not taking your prescribed medicine or taking too much of your prescribed medicine was bad for you. I was taught the vital importance of medicine, but also to make sure to understand the reason IContinue reading “When Food Becomes Medicine”
Trick-or-Treat!: Food Traditions Surrounding Halloween and Samhain
Halloween brings back memories of excitement about Trick-or-Treating and dressing up as the scariest thing I could think of that year and seeing the costumes of my friends. How, as we got older, we would ride our bikes to different subdivisions that had “the good candy” and playing pranks on my friends to scare them.Continue reading “Trick-or-Treat!: Food Traditions Surrounding Halloween and Samhain”
Food as a Gateway for Culture
Ever since I was a kid I have always loved food. But more than that, I have always wanted to try food that was completely new to me. On family vacations, when we would go out to a restaurant to eat, I would pick out the weirdest thing on the menu and try it. IContinue reading “Food as a Gateway for Culture”
The Quest for the Best—Searching for the “authentic” in food travel
The Lesser Known Sweetener
One of the fondest memories which strikes my mind whenever I close my eyes and try to revisit my childhood is of my father carrying me on his shoulder on a dirt road overlooking a river on one side and a paddy farm on the other. Before leaving our house my mother used to smearContinue reading “The Lesser Known Sweetener”
Regional Foods: Oxtail Stew
When trying to decide what to write about this week, I had a hard time picking a topic. With the protests going on calling for police reform and justice for centuries of racism and discrimination against the black community, writing a blog about food seemed….insignificant. But as I always try to do here on TheContinue reading “Regional Foods: Oxtail Stew”
Cooking and Gardening: The Dynamic Duo
When I was in college, I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to study. I started out in biology, but after a few semesters lost interest. The actual classes on biology I loved, but the other classes I had to take like Chemistry and Physics, I had a hard time caring about. IContinue reading “Cooking and Gardening: The Dynamic Duo”
The Cultural Chef 