Let’s nourish with ease together.
Spending over a decade cooking and baking in restaurants and bakeries around the world, I have arrived at learning that the art is neither the eating or cooking, but the offering and sharing of food. I have learned to build a pantry for a month of temporary residence to years of temporary residences and everything in between. I have curated a set of tools that I travel with to create endless possibilities of nourishment. There exists more ways, more opportunities to express ourselves if we get to know the tools we already have. I want to offer the experiences I have honed to help others find comfort in their kitchen.
As we go through life, we enter and exit many stages. Some transitions offer more contrast than others. Sometimes, these changes demand that our diet also adjust. It can be uncomfortable and overwhelming if we feel unequipped. Food can help us feel grounded, build our immune system, affect our emotions, transform us so we can better navigate both certainty and uncertainty, guide us into intuition, and provide ease to playfully explore again.
I desire to support those who want to cook more in their homes and with more fluidity. My goal is that with these offerings you can feel more comfortable in the spaces you’re cooking and sharing memories in. I cherish in the invitation of friends, in counting the days until the celebration, small or large, and in the craft of invitation to nourishment.
Below are 3 offerings I am excited to share, virtually or in-home collaborations. Current place of residence: Weaverville, NC. Happy to travel if necessary. If interested, please share with me how I can assist in this form.
Mindful Kitchen Practices, Cooking Seasonally
FOR those who feel one-directional in the kitchen and want to add seasonal vibrancy. Create a sustainable rhythm of how you share nourishment.
– Learn how to manage a cooking space. Create less cleanup.
– Build a streamlined, meaningful pantry.
– Adjust recipes that bring comfort to incorporate seasonal produce or dietary shifts.
This offering will be most beneficial with quarterly collaboration.
Post-Partum Nourishment
FOR those who want to practice and share the art of nourishment in the early post-partum months. Support mothers and their families to invite rest and recovery and allow space for the most bonding and presence to occur.
– Learn how to adjust base recipes and cooking techniques for all seasons.
– Learn which foods restore balance to a new or newly again mother.
This offering will be most beneficial as needed and can be held individually or for a group.
Sourdough Baking
FOR those who want to expand or begin their sourdough baking knowledge and skills. Establish a few recipes to help you feel more comfortable baking sourdough breads.
– Learn how to build and maintain a sourdough starter.
– Find a bread schedule that works with already set in place time commitments.
– Identify baking details or techniques that might be overlooked with inexperience.
This offering will be most beneficial as needed and can be held individually or for a group.
Still undecided? Send a message and let’s share a conversation to discover comfort in cooking. It took me cooking sola for a year while living in Lima to find the internal light which pointed me to my grandmother and memories of her in the kitchen.
These books gave me much insight during transitions:
– Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life, by Claudia Welch
– Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition, by Pitchford, Paul
– Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon
– Staying Healthy with the Seasons, by Elson M. Haas
– Evolutionary Herbalism, by Sajah Popham
– Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine, by Harriet Beinfield and Efrem Korngold
Let us nourish together.
To learn more about this wonderful human you may desire to collaborate with, visit writings at karenman.substack.com or bread.blog.
Karen Man 