The Luminous Kitchen

Hi Im Jo Anderson and welcome to The Luminous Kitchen. I hope you like it here. The Luminous Kitchen is about sharing how food brings people together, savoring because its not so much about what you eat, but how you eat it that really matters and enjoying thats the part where we dont take ourselves so seriously, where we drop all the judgement and... labels and just do more of what makes us happy. I learnt about savouring and enjoying real food from living and working on yachts in the Mediterranean and around the world. My passion and fake it til you make it attitude landed my untrained butt in the organic grass fed butter working as a private chef to a Russian Billionaire ( oh the stories I can tell). It was in Europe that my love of cooking was forever cemented. I fell in love with the way European cultures revere cooking as an art and a ritual and how it is intrinsically interwoven into the culture of societies, bringing people and families together. I have never been able to stick to recipes (even my own) and I always try to find a way to add a personal spin to any recipe I make and thats what I encourage you to do. Make my recipes your own- use them as a guide ( except baking recipes baking recipes are always very exact) then stray from the path be adventurous and discover what you love. I think we make food far more complicated than it needs to be. Weve compiled so many rules to decipher whats healthy and what isnt that we start to judge food before we even get a chance to see if our body might like it. I believe that the kitchen should be the heart of the home and that it is up to each and every one of us to be mindful of where our food comes from and how it is prepared. I believe in the energetics of food and that a meal prepared at home with real, organic (where possible) ingredients and love, eaten mindfully and savoured is not only nourishment to our bodies but to our souls as well In a world of processed fast foods I want to lovingly guide people back into their kitchens with easy, simple recipes ...Read More