Spring Equinox and a Joint for Jook

Please join us on the first day of Springtime:

Neblina's Ardent Little Paladar at the San Francisco Skate Club!

WHAT: Neblina's Ardent Little Paladar ft.  jook + all the fixings- free and open to ALL

WHEN: Sunday, March 20 from 11a-2p 

WHERE: San Francisco Skate Club 

WHY: Community Well SF

Our 3rd trip through the Love Kitchen finds us celebrating the magical unfolding of Spring alongside nourishing free food for/with our badass, ever-growing community, and launching the ship for this cook's 39th Trip Fantastic around the Sun. 

Let's have some jook!

The menu this month features the almighty jook (congee, chok, cháo, Okayu, khao piak, kanji, juk....)  accompanied by all the freshest farmers market finds and oils, sauces and pungent, sour, spicy little garnishes for days.

Jook is one of the first 'nutritionist' meals I learned how to make. 

I've made it for people I love all over the world. People who were super sick, people who are getting better, people who were brand new people, people who had been people for decades upon decades and people who had way too much to drink the night before and felt like some sad amalgamation of all of the above. 

It is deeply satisfying to eat and so steeped in healing, cultural and food history that I also find it immensely satisfying to cook and serve. It's Love in a cup and I can't think of a better way to welcome spring and all the new Life that comes with it.

Any money dropped in our tip jar this month goes to the Community Well SF community. 

I am SO excited about them and I am SO happy to be supporting their work this month.

As I make my way through my holistic nutrition studies, I am driven in part by a yearning to educate and empower families to help each other and themselves have a better day/week/year by working partially from the stage of a good meal. 'I'm here to help reduce these ACE scores, have you eaten?' 

Meanwhile Community Well SF is doing so many of the things I would have dreamed of doing in all my current and former roles.

They offer classes in: parenting through different eras of child development; giving birth; talking to your kids about their bodies and sex; how to give massages to infants for parents and older siblings(!!!!!!); personal and family counseling/therapy; sensuality for moms; financial health; yoga--- and so many more things I believe in. Things that I deeply believe will help us keep growing the healthiest, happiest, empowered and thriving communities possible.

And on that I can't think of a better way to celebrate Spring and new Life and our Magnificent City amidst all the possibilities that lie waiting for us in the growing light and the power of a loving community working strongly together.

I pulled this from Community Well SF's website:

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”  -Martin Luther King Jr.

I hope to see your beautiful face at the table on March 20! 

Bring a friend, bring an empty belly. If you  want to help it shine, please wear yellow, orange or green like Vernal Creatures of Glory that you are.

Until then, I send you Love and Gratitude.

Venceremos,

K