I dream of being a "Big Fat Italian Nonna". Why, because I want to be the kind of person that cares more about the food I cook and the people I feed, than what people think of me. Besides who doesn't want to cook with the freshest of ingredients, smell like food all day and live in Italy!

I am a cook, first and foremost, and care only about how my work through food connects me with things that are meaningful to my impressions of life. My resume reads like that of a culinary vagabond, a drifter, but I looked and found the experiences that moved my work to the next level of meaning.

I love traveling and all things chocolate (quality chocolate that is)! My favorite cuisine is Italian and I’ll enjoy a cold Belgian beer or a delicious glass of Shiraz any time. I get a kick out of reality TV, love watching movies, and have a soft spot for Boston Terriers.

My goal has always been to cook like a chef. I've a long way to go and a lot to learn but my girls say I make the best PB&J sandwich hands down. There's no one more important to please then them.

Life is most truly lived in it's unscheduled moments. Live each one to its fullest.

I grew up in the UK and traveled around Europe at an early age. I have always loved everything about food, the ritual, the community of it all and of course the taste! there is nothing that I don't like other than processed food that is.
Working in a good professional kitchen is always very exciting, the people you work with, the events..the food! it all leads to a very satisfying place to be.
I think myself very lucky to have experienced so much of it all.

I am currently living in the Philippines and hoping to move back to Vancouver ... very soon. I am also embarking a new journey in Holistic Nutrition where food is a healing tool for the body, mind and soul..as well as the earth, relationships and everything in between. Please visit and support my blog at www.sense-serendipity.com

Anita Stewart is the author of 11 cookbooks - including the award-winning book The Flavours of Canada. She has written for Food & Drink, The Dallas Morning News and Canadian Living. She is the food columnist for CBC Radio One's Fresh Air and the founder of Cuisine Canada.

"Mario Batali is a madman and a hero. Is there nothing he's not good at? Great chef, successful restaurateur, an author, an intellectual, host of a ridiculously informative and much-too-good-for-television TV show, aficionado of fine rock and roll - and a man of Falstaffian appetites."
- Anthony Bourdain

I love to cook different things.
My passion is seafood and slow cooked meals as well as confit of various meats.
I always use fresh vegetables and meats unless nothing else is available at the time.
I love to use spices and almost all of my recipes are gluten free.

Trish Magwood is the entrepreneur and creative spirit behind the concept that is dish, a cooking school, catering company, café and retail business. Known as well for her hit television show party dish, she has refined her own stylish, confident and contemporary approach to cooking and entertaining.

You can call me Lupita, i am a Mexican living in Houston Texas. I carry with me the all the things i love from my culture and pass them to my sons and grand sons. Mexican cuisine for me is simplicity, and simplicity is were most of the most beautiful things are found. I am not a professional cook, but i love cooking anything that awakens imagination, i am passionated about food and different flavors, create my own recipes and experiment with different ones.
I cook for friends and family for many reasons, but mostly for love.

I am here to share. Food and cooking is something that we all have in common.

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Llamame Lupita, soy Mexicana y vivo en Houston TX. llevo dentro de mi todas las cosas que amo de mi cultura y paso esas tradiciones a mis hijos y a mis nietos.
La Cocina Mexicana para mi es algo muy simple, pero en la simplicidad se encuentran las cosas mas bellas.
No soy una cocinera profesional, pero me encanta cocinar cualquier cosa que despierte la imaginacion, me apasiona la cominda y los savores diferentes, tambien crear mis propias recetas y experimentar con otras.
Yo cocino para amigos, familiares y conocidos, por muchas razones, pero principalmente, por amor.

Estoy aqui para compartir lo que todos tenemos en comun, comer y cocinar.