Developing better recipes with NGI’s “Writing for Food Media” program

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Remember when I waxed poetic about the wonderful place that is Natural Gourmet Institute… which also happens to be my place of work? Well, thanks to NGI, I get to take advantage of the most wonderful opportunity and I am so excited to tell you about it! For the first time ever, NGI will be… 

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14 favorite posts of 2014

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2014 – what a year. I started an amazing job, moved out of my family’s home and in with my boyfriend, finally got a DSLR camera and took my blog photographs to a new level. Moving into my own place and being immersed in nutrition and the culinary arts at work has also changed the… 

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Why shop at the farmers market, in layman’s terms

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Before starting my job at a “health-supportive” culinary school, I didn’t really get the whole farmers market thing. Sure it’s cute to buy produce out in the open air like in some small French town, but it just seemed so pretentious. I saw the Greenmarket as a hoity-toity place where hipsters would languorously browse through organic… 

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I’m a big kid now.

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I remember the first time we ever talked about it. It was when I was visiting Rene up at school in Pennsylvania, back in 2012. We had only been dating for a few months but somehow brought up the idea of moving in together. At first we laughed at it, but within minutes both realized… 

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Makeover!

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If you are reading this, you’ve probably noticed that Chez Sasha has gotten a long-awaited and well-deserved face-lift! The new design is cleaner and sleeker, and alas makes my blog mobile responsive. There are still a few kinks to be worked out, but overall I’d say it’s looking pretty sexy. What do you think? I’ve… 

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