Escape to the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa (October 29-31) for the ultimate food and yoga enthusiast’s event. I will be collaborating with Executive Chef Jamie West for an event that will exercise your taste buds as well as your body. With sessions combining yoga for foodies, wine lovers, and chocolate lovers, this will be a weekend of spiritual and gastronomical indulgence.
Following Yoga for Foodies’ coverage in NY Times, Chicago Sun Times, Self, and Marie Claire, this will be a weekend that nourishes your mind, spirit…and belly!
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.” -Fellini
My girlfriend came across Le Caramel while perusing the internet. I love a little dessert snack while watching American Idol or the NBA Playoffs. But the dairy hangover from Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream was crushing. So I switched to a equally sweet but healthier snack…salted caramel on an apple. As described by the creators of Le Caramel: “In the heart of Normandy, only a few miles away from the D-day beaches, the little town of Isigny sur Mer is known worldwide for its quality dairy products; its milk, cream and cheese are considered to be among the best in France. Of all the wonderful recipes derived from these products, one stands out: the salted butter caramel.”
What’s great about these sweet little discoveries is that its creators are bootstrapping it together and doing everything they can to share their passion with the world. Thus, this special groupshop where you get their caramel cream chocolate sauce as their gift to you when you indulge in a few other unforgettable, mindbending treats from Le Caramel. VISIT HERE FOR THE GROUPSHOP. It’s on my storefront on The Open Sky Project, an online farmer’s market.
Its the impassioned people doing it on their own that make the world a sweeter place. In this case, I mean “sweeter” in every sense of the word.
“Food has replaced sex in my life. Now I can’t even get into my own pants.” -Anonymous
I had the pleasure of meeting Alexandra and Andrea at my Yoga for Foodies event in Phoenix. (They have a third partner, Anthony Anderson who is also known as The Raw Model) These are the kind of folks I’d have imagined meeting in the fields of Northern California…certainly not the conservative environment that is Arizona. These women live from the heart and their Blackbird Naturals handmade raw, vegan, cacao truffles are a virtual symphony of freshness, beauty, and love. Seriously, every bite sings to you…like a Grateful Dead show in your mouth.
You can’t even imagine the amount of flavor that comes from six ingredients: dates, cacao, coconut oil, Himalayan pink salt, shredded coconut, and cacao nibs.
To buy Blackbird Raw Vegan Truffles, click the button below which links directly to my storefront on The Open Sky Project, an online farmer’s market. Enter code 15OFFBLACKBIRD at checkout to receive 15% off your order.Enjoy!
Watch this short video from Anthony to learn more.
Yoga for Foodies…Phoenix
April 30, 2010
at At One Yoga with Patty Emmert, Director of Slow Food Phoenix
I finished watching the movie Food INC and felt like an ignorant fool. Food INC exposes what goes on behind the scenes in the food industry…cruel treatment of animals, corporate corruption, and the endangerment of the consumer. It’s easy to turn a blind eye but this movie makes you want to wake up.
It makes you realize that we put so much emphasis on speed, efficiency, and convenience and so little emphasis on slowing down and savoring life. The Slow Food movement is all about restoring a slower pace, treating animals fairly, and supporting local farmers to return to a time when a good meal was a chance to commune, relax, and live in the moment. Last Friday’s Yoga for Foodies event was a collaboration with the Director of Slow Food’s Phoenix chapter, Patty Emmert. Patty’s primary push has been to launch the Phoenix Public Market which is a showcase for local producers.
The day prior to the event, Patty took me to Maya’s Farm run by local legend Maya Dailey. We picked veggies from the farm, brought them back to the Phoenix Public Market, and Patty prepared a feast including chilled Hungarian cucumber soup, an organic red quinoa salad, and Vanilla Panna Cotta with roasted local strawberries. And best of all to top things off were Blackgird vegan cocoa nib truffles made by local Phoenicians Alexandra and Andrea Maw and Anthony Anderson.
After some yoga at my home studio At One Yoga, we indulged, drank wine, conversed, and were in no hurry at to leave to go anywhere. As one of my favorite yoga teachers always says, “Nowhere to go, no one to be, nothing to do.”
