From Market to Table
Culinary education and seasonal cooking demonstrations by local chefs
From Market to Table features professional chefs, caterers, and cookbook authors from the Monterey Bay area who are committed to using locally grown produce and ardent supporters of the farmers markets. Learn how to use seasonal produce in every day menus as the chef demonstrates delectable and simple dishes that you can prepare at home. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.
When: Second Saturday of each month, May through October, 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Where: Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College
MEET THE CHEFS
Saturday, july 10, 2010
Patricia Tanumihardja
Cookbook author, travel and food writer
Local food and travel writer Pat Tanumihardja’s debut cookbook, The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook—Home Cooking from Asian American Kitchens (Sasquatch Books) is a treasury of family recipes and stories spanning over a dozen Asian cultures. A former farmers market manager, Pat loves to shop at farmers markets and always incorporates fresh market picks into her cooking no matter the season.
In addition, she comes from a line of excellent home cooks and was schooled in Indonesian and Chinese cooking by her mother, Julia, who co-owns Julia’s Indonesian Kitchen in Seattle. She enjoys sharing her culinary knowledge and believes that anyone can learn how to cook. “If I can teach my husband to stir-fry, you can learn too!” she says.
Patricia Tanumihardja is an award winning freelance writer who regularly contributes articles to Saveur, Sunset, Seattle, and Seattle Metropolitan magazines. She grew up in Singapore and now lives in Monterey, CA. She enjoys writing about the multicultural fabric that we live in and profiling the amazing people who make up today's diverse communities. A global citizen herself, her multicultural background and many travels inform and influence her writing every step of the way.
About the book:
The goddess of the kitchen is most certainly the Asian grandmother. From cold-curing Kao Tom Moo to classic Lumpia to oh-so-hot Gosht Ka Saalan, this is your grandma’s cookbook! Asian grandmothers–whether of Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, or Indian descent–are the keepers of the cultural, and culinary, flame. Their mastery of delicious home-cooked dishes and comfort food makes them the ideal source for this cookbook.
Author Patricia Tanumihardja has assembled 130 tantalizing dishes from real Chinese Garlic Fried Rice to the timeless Filipino Chicken Adobo to the ultimate Japanese comfort dish Oyako Donburi. This is hearty food, brightly flavored, equally good to look at and eat. Flavors range from soy and ginger to hot chilies, fragrant curries, and tart vinegars. The author has translated all of the recipes to work in modern home kitchens. Many of the recipes have been handed down verbally from mother to daughter for generations, and some appear in tested and written form for the first time. With color photographs throughout and profiles of the charming grandmothers behind the dishes, this one-of-a-kind cookbook also includes a glossary explaining the ingredients found in the Asian pantry, from the many kinds of rice and curries to unfamiliar but flavorful vegetables.
CONTACT INFO:
Pat Tanumihardja
Food and Travel Writer
831.521.7771
pat@ediblewords.com
www.theasiangrandmotherscookbook.wordpress.com