Kindred Tables
Centering food and community in a connected conversation.
Learn Kimchi Fried Rice by listening to this playlist on Spotify!
I found a great article on NPR about sharing food in a very thoughtful, creative non-traditional way. Instead of a recipe, this playlist allows you to consider the ingredients and method as told in the form of a curated playlist on Spotify! ...
RAINBOW CHOCOLATE (KITCHEN MAGIC!)
I tried adding a little fun in trying something new - I saw holographic chocolate online, with the claim that it was easy to make. I love rainbows and chocolate, so decided to try, figuring if it was harder than it seemed, or didn't work out, I could still eat the...
Hello! I'm Anna ...
I like food.
I’m constantly musing over the story of what we eat, and how it connects us.
I’m living up to a legacy of love, some of it’s in the form of scones.
MINDFUL EATING
A sweet friend of mine shares coaching tips every month on Pittsburgh Today Live. This month Marlene uses the trick of sensory eating to bring us into a more mindful present moment. Marlene mentions that because it's February, we're in a more sensory place -...
TUNING IN (CREPES)
Author Maya Stein describes herself as a "Ninja poet, writing guide, creative adventuress" I've known her through mutual friends and produced a couple of online interviews with her for work with the Hero's Journey® Foundation, but I feel most kindred to her written...
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
{Image of Pumpkin Scones, jam and cream, my grandmother's iconic recipe} The story of Kindred Tables is: You are what you eat. I like to think about how I am made up -literally- of all the food I've eaten. I am composed of all the food I've ever eaten. At the cellular...
MIDWINTER SUNSHINE IN THE FORM OF CAKE
A RECIPE FOR CITRUS SUNSHINE - A Lemon/Orange Pound Cake from Gretchen McKay of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She says, “Will the sun to shine with a lemon-orange pound cake”. It’s mid-winter here in the North American heartland, and we will do whatever it takes to...
MY GRANDFATHER’S TEAPOT
My father's father, the Reverend Heinrich Noack was born in 1910. I knew him as a grandfather who read us Pilgrim's Progress after dinner. He seemed wise and strict and bookish. After he passed away, my aunt gave me his teapot, and over the years I've used it so...
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