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English - Cooking, Chef Monica Pope, Green Plum Cooking School
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

In Visible Transformation…

Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, February 5th To say that I’m still processing the movie “Black Swan” is an understatement.   My friends’ and followers’ reactions to my tweeting about it forced me to do even more processing.  I think some people thought I didn’t get the movie.  Au contraire.  I
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

Here, Taste This!

Green Plum Cooking School – Sat, Oct 2nd I’m always suspicious when someone says, “Here, taste this!” and shoves a pepper in my face.  That’s what Hans Hansen of Twin Persimmons Farm did when I arrived this morning at the market.  I was tasting an Aji Dulce chili – and it really is as good [...]
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

Spicy. Sticky. Sweet.

Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, August 28th Today, I’m doing a spicy red chili preserve, even though I don’t have all the ingredients…does that really surprise anyone at this point?  I decide to have Benjy roast the peppers in the kitchen so we don’t have to do them in small batches (and becau
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

When in Umbria (or in Houston dreaming of Umbria)…

Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, August 21st I brought home some dried Umbrian Cicerchie (aka “wild chickpeas”) from Berkeley.   Lisa Googles Umbria for the class:  it’s one of the smallest regions in the center of Italy, just east of Tuscany, north of Rome and west of the Marches (if you imagi
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

Is This Thing On?

Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, August 14th Today, I’m making a gazpacho with beets.  I’m having trouble with my mic, though.  I’m not sure anyone can hear me.  I just keep talking.  I mention my mother’s gazpacho and the one I had in Spain years ago – lasting food impressions that are always
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

“Twog” This…Part 2

CHEF MONICA POPE Travel Blog, Part 2 – San Francisco/Bay Area – August 2010 More Tweets from my summer travels that I never Tweeted. (…continued from Part 1) *Ah, Chez Panisse….what can I say….lots of history here.  Very unassuming, copper, warm wood, an actual fire, everyone from kitchen to floor f
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

“Twog” This…Part One

CHEF MONICA POPE Travel Blog, Part 1 – San Francisco/Bay Area – August 2010 I was supposed to Tweet during my vacation but, because I prefer to eat life instead of tweet life, I saved all my tweets and decided to blog them instead.  Call it “twogging.” That’s kind of like my other new favorite [...]
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

It’s in Our (De-)Nature…

Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, July 31st My mind has already switched back into vacation mode (Yes, again! Every year, I close t’afia for a week so my staff can all have a nice vacation away without worrying about who’s going to cover whose shifts).  But before shutting it all down, I have a
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

It’s About Thyme…

Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, July 24th I’m on Mexican time, today.  Well, really Mexican thyme.  I just got back from a little vacation in Yelapa (no, not the new “beach food” restaurant here in Houston on Richmond).  Yelapa, Mexico might as well be an island, since no cars can get there.  
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monicaSPEAK · 1Y ago

Long Enough For Me…

Green Plum Cooking School – July 17th Right from the start, I’m not sure what is going on this morning.  Usually, we hand out tickets for seats to my free morning cooking class starting at 9:00 am.  People wander up and in, cradling breakfast and coffee in their laps.  We end up with a full [...]
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