What is Healthy Cooking Live?
Remember when everyone used to cook? I’m sure some of you don’t, but I’m just old enough to have caught the tail end of it. You used to be able to look around most neighborhoods between 5pm and 7pm and see families eating home-cooked meals together. It just doesn’t happen anymore. There are almost two complete generations of Americans for which food preparation was not part of average childhood experience. If you could get a well-prepared, inexpensive, and healthy meal in a restaurant that would be less of an issue, but that’s not the way it works. We train our Chefs to use prodigious amounts of salt, fat, and sugar…I know, I am one and that’s the way I was trained, both at the Culinary Institute of America and the School of Hard Knocks! In 2003 I thought I was a culinary bad-ass, and after more than 25 years of experience in international resorts, I may have even earned that title, but when I approached having to cook without extra salt, fat, sugar, meat, and dairy I faced the harde
