Making Love in the Kitchen

Last week- this whole book thing became very, very, VERY real to me. We shot my book! Yes we did. I had a whole crew in the kitchen with me. My amazing kitchen fairies, my editor and the designer from my publisher McClelland and Stewart, my photographer Catherine Farquharson and her assistant Nicki, Amy Lam, my make-up artist, and Ashley Denton, the food stylist. Wowza did we zip through loads of goodness. It was so much fun. Day 1 of the shoot was all about me in action- playing in the kitchen. Day 2 and 3 we shot all the amazing food shots. On Sunday, I invited some ladies over for a fantastic brunch and we rounded out the four day shoot with a visit to my home to catch my man and I just hangin’. The book is all written. Handed in my last chapters before I left for Hawaii. Now I just have to edit. I can’t believe I have to wait a whole 11 months before I get to show off the prize of all these efforts. Wanna to me a favour and start getting excited right along with me? Maybe these pictures from the first couple days of the shoot might help.
(And before you ask- all clothes from my fave store ever- Anthropologie)

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I offer loads of info about loads of foods- some everyday foods like squash and raspberries and some weirder foods like cocoa butter and aloe. I’m an equal opportunity food researcher.

Today- the food falls into the weird category- and is also fitting after all the excitement yesterday over the registration rush on our Fab Uplift Detox Program.

There is something powerful, magical and inherently healing about the ocean. There is no place I would rather be than with my toes in the ocean. There is also something incredibly powerful about the ocean. Our planet depends on the health of our water for survival.

Wait a second- don’t we, as humans also rely on the power of our water for survival? Yes, my fair sister, Yes! I say.

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Happy family day! Weird holiday yes? Especially as it comes the day after love day. Do we really need days in our calendar to remind us to feel love, express love and to cherish our family? Name the holidays whatever you like- family doesn’t come from a day off of work, or blood relations with any number of people you might have nothing to do with if you weren’t related. Family, like love, is just a feeling.

Last week, I had dinner with this amazing family of ladies.

This is Catherine Farquharson, photographer extra-oridnaire! You’ve met her before here. Catherine is the talent behind that photo up there in my site masthead and Catherine is a brave woman. She had me over for dinner. We actually had a double date of sorts. Along came my sweet friend, Vanessa Farquharson (book author and journalist and just happens to have the same last name as Catherine… and they kind of look alike) and also in attendance was Catherine’s best friend Hilary Doyle (Reporter for the Business News Network, and braved a faced off with David Suzuki).

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