I couldn’t go far with this blog without an enormous big up and THANKYOU!! to Heidi Swanson: Chef, Photographer, Blogger, Designer and huge personal hero. Her website 101cookbooks is one of the best cooking (and best looking) sites online (in my opinion) and it was my original inspiration for a blog and her photographs and recipes continue to inspire and thrill me. Thank you Heidi!!!

Can I just take a moment and to tell you how great Jessie and Eugene from Ashtanga Montreal are? They are great- so great! They are the most fun teachers/performers/parents/partners/people to work with/around/near ever. Their energy is fantastic, they are both absolutely wonderful yoga teachers with very different teaching styles and approaches but when they get together they are BAM! KAZOOM! KAPOW!! If you ever have a chance… I highly recommend having something to do with them, whether it’s dropping in for a class, catching one of their super acroyoga blast workshops or even just watching them perform in this exquisite video. Get more info and go check them out!!

Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist and author of Vegan Soul Food Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy and Creative African-American Cuisine and co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen… and one of my personal heroes. For the past nine he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system, using cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity. Along with many other projects Bryant founded b-healthy (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a multi-year initiative designed to empower youth to be active in creating a more just and sustainable food system. 

Check out his site and blog here to find out more.