Tam
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Personal chef |
| Location | The Sonoran Desert, United States |
| Introduction | I'm allergic to wheat, spelt, barley, and rye, and gluten intolerant. I am also allergic to yeast, dairy, tomatoes, and egg whites. I am a plant based omnivore, heavy on the plants. My style of cooking? Seasonal gluten free whole food for real people that's been influenced by global cuisine, my own travels, and over 20 years as a natural foods/living professional. |
| Interests | Living fully, loving, learning, awareness, serendipity, cooking, baking, uncooking, juicing, foraging and gleaning, thrift shops, my knives, the balancing act of Integrative Medicine, botanical medicine, botany, organic gardening, ripping up lawns and driveways to plant food, composting and worms, ants, bees, butterflies, dragonflies, lady-bugs, traveling, hiking, sleeping on the Mother, hot springs, oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, ponds and puddles, caves, rocks, sunsets, the way the light glows at twilight, stars, astronomy, astrology, meditation, yoga, ballet, cats and dogs, sun and moon teas, coconut milk, almond milk lattes, tattoos, books, movies, and music sweet music...on records. |
| Favorite Movies | Brazil, Time Bandits, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and every other Terry Gilliam film. Also: Like Water For Chocolate, Being There, Soylent Green, Idiocracy, Splendor In The Grass, Little Miss Sunshine, Shaun Of The Dead, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Dr. Strangelove, Walk The Line, Fight Club, The Wrestler, The Good Heart, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Cold Mountain, Red Dawn, The Business Of Being Born, The Matrix Trilogy, The Red Violin, Blow, Antonia's Line, Harold and Maude. Akira Kurosawa's films, anything by John Waters, dark comedies, documentaries, foreign films, indy everything, dystopian future fright fests, zombie movies/ zomcomedy, disaster movies of any quality. More!! |
| Favorite Music | Michael Franti and Spearhead, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, Frank Zappa, Gogol Bordello, Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule, whatever Les Claypool is up to, Jello Biafra/DK's, Mos Def, Tool, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seegar, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Gorillas, Miles Davis, Etta James, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Taj Mahal, Rythym Devils, Planet Drum, The Verve Re-Mixes, Conscience Hip Hop, Jungle, Drums and Bass, French Lounge, Turtablism, Space, Acid Jazz. Classical, African jazz/drums/ guitar, Traditional American music; jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, Rockabilly, 70's country, Motown, New York Punk, and rock and roll. I love Traditional Music from all over our little blue planet. |
| Favorite Books | The Handmaids Tale, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Walking to Mercury, A People's History of the United States V.1-2, the Good Life library of Scott and Helen Nearing, The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Secret Life Of Plants, The Secret Life Of Bees, The Secret Garden, Possesing of The Secret Joy (Alice Walker in general), Be Here Now, The Mists of Avalon, Ectotopia, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Heart Songs Of Charging Elk, The Grapes of Wrath, She's Come Undone, A Walk Across America, The Memoirs of Cleopatra, The Time Traveler's Wife, Tiger Eyes, The Red Tent, The Nasty Bits, No Reservations, 7 Years In Tibet, 1491, Wilbur Smith's Egypian novels, The Radical Homemaker, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Nourishing Traditions, The Accidental Vegan, A Family Herbal (rosemary gladstar!), anything with the name Alice Waters in the the title, Spritual Midwifery, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Thoreau, Whitman, and Frost, anything by the good Doctor Seuss and Dr Hunter S. Thompson, and lots more. I read everything I can get my hands on. |
What did you dream when you ate a spider while sleeping?
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”