For me, food is all about the company rather than the dish itself. Food can be so emotional and when we are with people who mean the world to us, it has the potential of becoming so much more.
I am so excited to welcome my friend and fellow creative Monique Sourinho to the CulturallyOurs podcast. Monique and I connect way back during the very early days of CulturallyOurs and she immediately jumped on board and created a beautiful recipe for us and shared some amazing photos of her travels to her home country of Laos.
Monique has had a very interesting journey from a commissioned painter to a tattoo artist, to a pastry chef and now as a food stylist, food photographer and food blogger. She does commercial work for ads related to the food industry as well as recipe development for business in the food and hospitality space. She is extremely talented and her enthusiasm and love for all things related to creativity and food comes out throughout our chat.
Monique and I talked about comfort foods and got a bit deep into the science behind what and why. She says food especially comfort foods are often very emotional – we have all have different ones for different reasons. We also geeked out a bit on how there is very real science behind this concept. Often comfort foods are easy carbs and there is a reason for it. Scientifically these get digested faster and releases endorphins faster leading to the happy place that we want in the first place. Bet you did not anticipate a scientific discussion about food on the CulturallyOurs podcast, did you?
We also talked the difference between traveling to eat or food just being a part of your travel adventures. Of course, one of my favorite questions around who would you have at your dinner table and what would you serve got a very unique response from Monique who said for her sharing meals is very much hospitality related. It’s a very interactive experience where she spends time and effort in figuring out what other people’s pallets are like. Then it becomes more personal, which is so true! It not about us, it’s about them!
I am so happy to have Monique on the CulturallyOurs podcast and I know you are doing to enjoy getting to know her and her food journey on this episode of CulturallyOurs.
{Photos by Monique Sourinho; Website: Bee The Love: Instagram: @bee.the.love}
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