In the beginning….

I must say, cooking is in my blood.  One of my grandmothers was a professional family cook during her younger years, and I will always remember her down to earth completely Austrian food.  Her “Rindsbraten” and “Erdaepfelkroketten” will be forever in my mind.  Ah, I can smell it now! 

My mother was the creative one – out of necessity.  We never had a lot of money, especially when my parents were first married, and so a little food had to go a long way, and still look and taste fantastic.

So I was always around food lovers and food artists in their own right.  But the real art of food, on how to integrate food into life, and make it a vital part of one’s life journey, I learned much later, from a true Martial Arts Master, Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim.

From her, I learned that it’s not only the freshness that counts, or the oven temperature, or whether food is organic or not.  I learned that things that seem so far out, like your thoughts while you prepare the food, will make a difference in how the end product tastes and affects those that eat it.

But I’ll get more into that later.