Cooking Mama

Before my Grandma makes Pani Puri for my family, she makes sure we have all the ingredients. She recalls the recipe from memory, adding the ingredients without measuring tools, in what looks like a haphazard fashion. Her cooking can be best described in three words: delicious organized chaos. Just like my Grandma’s Pani Puri recipe, the Indian Community has a variety of ingredients, each with its unique properties and effects. While Hindu camp and the cultural events are rigidly structured and…

My roomate has had an up and down issue with body weight, body image and self confidence. He has a happy and positive personality but struggles with living a healthy lifestlye, he wants to change that and admires that i workout a decent amount and try to eat relitively healthy. I tell him it is not a diet it is a lifestyle. He is motivated and wants to pick up football and try out for the team, and has asked me to help him come up with a one month plan to help him lose weight and get his fitness…

I made cooking videos and bought a juicer, convinced that I would join the ranks of Rachel Ray, the Barefoot Contessa, and Giada De Laurentiis. When I actually started cooking meals for my family, and decided it was too much work, I marched into Mad Men. With a spunky attitude and penchant for nostalgia, I was going to take over the advertising…

From the earliest dawn of time, the use of heat and warmth have been essential for human survival. Fire is how the human civilization cooked their food to avoid the dangers of eating raw meats. Now, with the readily available sources of heat at our fingertips, we haven’t really needed to know how to start a fire with two sticks unless we want to impress our friends on a camping trip. Even though fire helps us to survive, fire also destroys our homes and even our forests. Fire has become a symbol…

People generally enjoy soup it’s warm, tasty and nutritious but which soup is truly the best? Chicken noodle soup is a classic in American culture it is easy to prepare and cheap to make. People also believe that chicken noodle soup may have the ability to cure the common cold whether this is fact of fiction isn’t known for sure. Chicken noodle soup was popularized in the 1930’s when Campbell’s soup began mass producing canned variants of the soup. These canned variants became very popular and…

How to Cut an Onion Without Tears - the best way to cut an onionCourtesy of Pixabay/Stevepb Are you sick and tired of the tears and burning in your eyes as you cut up an onion? It is the age old question - how to cut an onion without tears? I'm going to share the secret of how to cut up an onion without tears. Along the way I figured out I had been cutting up onions the hard way for many years. I bet you are too! I'm also going to show you the fastest and simplest way to cut an onion. Cut…

In the second chapter, Barbara made use of Figurative language when conveying her message. Metaphor is a figurative language present in every chapter of the book but more so in the second chapter. She makes use of metaphor as a tool to creatively convey the situation of the low-wage workers. Here are some very good examples. “Repetitive injury of spirit (106)”. The purpose of this metaphor is to paint a picture of the condition of one’s spirit after doing too much work. “all I can see is a…

All the of the meat eaters in the group partook in trying some of the traditional stuffed, grilled, and smoked delicacy. It was then off to Cerámicas Seminario a ceramic workshop, where we got to see how clay pottery ceramics have continued to made and painted by hand by extremely talented local artists. The final stop of the day was at a small chicha house. Chicha or chicha morada is a sweet fermented corn or purple corn drink with a low alcohol content of about 3 percent. We each tried a…

The Greeks love to eat. Many Americans have a fear of coming to Greece because they are afraid of the food. There's nothing to be afraid of. It's not like Mexican food from the far east. Nothing is so spicy you can't eat it and the seasonings they use are the very same ones you have on the spice shelf in your Kitchen. What usually happens when you walk into a restaurant is after finding a table, you will be permitted or encouraged to go to the kitchen to see what they have to offer. There will…

How to make a Mediterranean Salad Most of you here probably have heard of the mediterranean cuisine, but do you know when it grew to fame? how? and most important of all, about it's salad? The Mediterranean diet has existed for the last 5,000 years but much of its fame is attributed to this particular book. The book was titled, get this, “A Book of Mediterranean food” by Elizabeth David, a cosmopolitan, middle class writer. According to the article “Elizabeth David: The woman who…