Meet our Featured Food Blogger Joey Bruno!
Joey Bruno is co-owner of Thrive Cuisine. Cooking healthy, delicious, plant-based meals has been Joey’s true passion since he went vegan in 2015. He has a master’s degree in nutrition and food science and is committed to making the internet a place of education and knowledge rather than misinformation and click bait. He currently lives […]
Meet our Featured Dietitian Lauren Harris-Pincus!
Lauren’s favorite nutrition advice? Think healthy, not skinny. She helps her clients get into that mindset with plenty of healthy eating tips, like adding beans to her meals for more protein and fiber. In fact, she loves using beans so much that she said she can’t pick a favorite: “It would be like choosing a […]
Meet our Featured Chef George Ennis!
To Chef George Ennis, cooking is like making a movie — and beans are part of his cast. Sometimes they take center stage. Sometimes they’re in a background role. But they’re always part of the ensemble because they’re versatile and hearty. In the grilled fish dish below, Chef George uses orca beans. (Get it?) You […]
Meet our Featured Chef Ryan André!
Dry beans are what Chef Ryan André grew up eating in his home state of Louisiana. Chef Ryan, corporate chef for City Pork Hospitality in Baton Rouge, has carved a name for himself as one of the top 10 best-known chefs in Louisiana. Food, family, and faith are what drive this young chef as he […]
Bean Pot Stickers
Last week I was watching “Martha Bakes” on the PBS Create channel and I learned something about myself — one of my favorite kitchen habits has a fancy name! Mise en place is French for “everything in its place.” When I am about to create something to eat, I place all the ingredients on the […]
Meet Akhil Shah of Chutney Chefs
Did you know that traditional Indian food uses garbanzo beans, black-eyed peas, kidney beans and garbanzo bean flour in most dishes – and with all variety type of dishes? Although Akhil Shah isn’t a chef, he founded Chutney Chefs, an Indian cuisine gourmet meal delivery service based in Plainfield, New Jersey. His five talented chefs […]
Featured Chef: Jesus Alcelay
Meet Chef Jesus Alcelay of the Cottonwood Grille in Boise, Idaho! Chef Jesus Alcelay is passionate about food and cooking — and he gives all the credit for his incredible skills to his mother, Felisa. At 9, he began learning traditional Basque dishes at her side in her kitchen in their hometown of Oñati, […]