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City Chef Puts Healthy Spin On Soul Food
by
 Cheryl Wills NY1 News

A growing movement to reinvent soul food in the city is looking to turn the fried Southern cuisine into a healthier meal without the risks. NY1's Cheryl Wills filed the following report.Soul food is so popular that movies have been named for it. But the legendary Southern cuisine is a known killer. It's part of the reason why two out of every five African-American adults suffer from heart disease."Soul food has gotten a bad rap, it's not the food itself, it's really the preparation," says American Diabetic Association spokesperson Constance Brown-Riggs.Brown-Riggs, who is also the author of "The African-American Guide to Living Well with Diabetes," says the fat back, pig knuckles, butter, salt, sugar and lard is what leads to diabetes and obesity in an astonishing number of blacks."The message really is to change the method of preparation, not necessarily to give up sweet potatoes but maybe give up candied yams," Brown-Riggs says.And that's where Eco Chef Love - as she is known - comes in. Brooke Guthrie, also known as Eco Chef Love, grew up eating soul food in her native North Carolina. She also watched her beloved mother die of complications from diabetes. Now she's a vegan, meaning she eats no meats or dairy products, and is spearheading a movement to turn soul food green. She calls her dishes Southern fusion."I knew it had to look good and taste better to open minds and to open palates," says Guthrie.The New York City based chef whips up dishes like vegan chicken and gluten free, Vegan waffles, but with a healthy twist. The waffles are made of corn and they're grilled not fried. And the vegan barbeque chicken is smothered with sauce that is not loaded with molasses and sugar. Instead, it's made with agave (that is High Fructose Corn Syrup Free). She even dares to make mac and cheese, with gluten-free vegan cheese. Folks who recently took part in a taste test in Manhattan say the Southern cuisine still has plenty of soul."Mac & Cheese is like the one thing. Once you go into vegan you kinda have to leave that behind but that fooled me," said one taste tester."It's a sensible alternative to what it is," said another.
EcoChef Love says the sky's the limit for soul food. She even makes gluten-free vegan sweet potato pie and vegan shrimp po' boys. She hopes her healthy recipes will win back foodies and make
Southern cuisine the soul of America once again.

EcoChef Love’s Light & Healthy
Gluten Free Vegan Cheese Sauce
for
Macaroni and Cheese, Nachos  and Pasta  with Spinach and Cheese Sauce

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EcoChef Love has been featured on New York 1 News Program as an expert Gourmet Vegan Chef.

Congratulations to Beautiful New Mom and The Kind Diet Cookbook Author Alicia Silverstone!

She and her husband welcomed a baby boy named Bear Blu on May 5th.


Watch my Video of Alicia Cooking the Vegan Caesar Salad from The Kind Diet
during the 2009 NYC Food & Wine Festival

Oh and by the way, the video has now received over 4,000 views since I posted it on YouTube!
Thank you Super EcoHeroes for Mama Earth! You Rock...

EcoChef Love has been featured on New York 1 News Program as an expert Gourmet Vegan Chef.

EcoFoodie Trend Spotting

Vegan Doughnuts!!!!!

  
  ©Tim Aguero www.aguerophoto.com

Seattle, the City of Roses, Love (after all it is the most Romantic City in the U.S.) and Coffee, can now lay claim to a new title: home of the newly crowned "Food Network Challenge: Donut Champions" winner
Mighty O’s.  Their Organic * Vegan seasonally flavored mainly cake-like treats are so good, they even won a blind taste challenge on New Day Northwest TV Show.  Seasonal Flavors range from my favorite Blueberry Monster to their bestselling Pumpkin, Mocha, Caramel Cutie and the Vanilla Donut with Coconut Caramel Sauce.  Surprisingly, some of Mighty O’s customers do not know that the doughnuts that they Love are Vegan. This hits upon another lesser known trend; where the V (as in Vegan) word is nowhere to be found on their website or their doughnut boxes.  Now that my best kept Foodie secret is out, all of the U.S. knows what I have been saying for years; Mighty O’s is the best Vegan or non-vegan Donut Shop in the U.S.A. 

Never to be out done by our Award Winning West Coast brethren...

New York City’s Vegan Doughnut Scene is on Fire!

Luckily for those of us in the Big Apple Metro area, Cinnamon Snail Food Truck creates a delicious Doughnut East Coast equivalent to Mighty O’s.  Just as the namesake implies, their Cinnamon Glazed Twist is an Organic Vegan show stopper along with all of their other standout flavors, such as the   Espresso Crumb Donut and Donut Holes shown in the picture.

 Terri’s Organic Vegan Café is the best place to satisfy your early morning (they open at 6 am weekdays) commuter perfectly sweet Apple Cider Cinnamon Doughnut (pictured above) needs and your late night (they close at 11 pm weekdays) Chocolate Glazed cravings.

Dun-Well Doughnuts, a new Vegan Doughnut wholesaler and soon to be retailer (but do not tell anybody  that I told you) is filling a much needed void with its artisan filled and topped Vegan beauties.  Offerings include innovative flavors such as Green Tea with Ginger Crystals (shown in the top row, 3rd to the right), Root Beer, Banana Walnut & Chocolate, Hawaiian Sunrise (Pineapple Frosted with Coconut and Sugared Pineapple Chunks), Cranberry Doughnut with Rosewater Glaze, Flaked Cranberry and the classic all-time favorite Peanut Butter and Jelly combo. They sellout fast, so you have to move quickly and early to get them when they are delivered fresh every Saturday to Blossom Du Jour, Boneshakers, Champs Family Bakery, Cocoa V and Lula’s Sweet Apothecary.

                        But what do you do if you live nowhere near Seattle or NYC? 
                                        Babycakes latest Cookbook to the rescue!

Babycakes’ hot off the press cookbook (released on April 12, 2011) Babycakes Covers the Classics From Donuts to Snickerdoodles makes baking (not frying!) your very own Gluten-Free Vegan doughnuts fun.  The recipes for the baked Agave-Sweetened Plain Donut and the Agave Sweet Chocolate Glaze make this cookbook a must have for the Diabetic in your life.  Want to try them for yourself?  Just stop by any of their 3 locations in New York City, Los Angeles or the Disney® Marketplace at the Walt Disney World® Resort for your mostly Gluten Free (some of their products contain Spelt) Vegan delights.

Mighty O’s photo courtesy of Mighty O & ©Tim Aguero.

EcoChef Love has been featured on New York 1 News Program as an expert Gourmet Vegan Chef.

    Steve Wynn

@ Wynn Encore Las Vegas

• Time: May 7, 12:00 PM Reception; 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch
• Resort: Wynn | Encore
• Venue: Beethoven Room at Encore
• Main Event: Vegas Uncork'd
• Attending: Kim Canteenwalla, Mark LoRusso, Tal Ronnen, Alex Stratta, Jet Tila, David Walzog

Welcome to the Re-Birth of Mama Earth Rocks blog. Many great things are in store for 2012 so stay tuned... And yes, some of your old favorite blog postings and recipes will make a special guest appearance...
Thank you for reading my blog,
EcoChef Love

You Rock!

Brooke Guthrie aka EcoChef Love is a North Carolina native who specializes in Healthy Southern Fusion Cuisine. EcoChef Love has been featured on New York 1 News Program as an expert Gourmet Vegan Chef. 

Brooke grew up helping her mother bake her famous Pound Cakes. Today she is a Professional Vegan Baker, EcoChocolatier, EcoChef, EcoTrend Spotter, Teacher and EcoSpeaker who travels around the U.S. teaching other Citizens of this Great Earth how to Eat Earth Friendly. EcoChef Love is currently in search of a publisher for her 2 EcoFriendly Cookbooks: The Cheesecake Chronicles – Earth Friendly Decadent Desserts for Every Diet: Including Gluten Free, Diabetic Friendly, Dairy Free, Plant Based Desserts Sweetened with Agave Nectar and Desserts by the Season that Everyone Can Bake.