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Featured Chefs
Featured Chefs
Alynn Nguyen is a mother of two boys and a Wellness Advocate specialize in promoting healthier living through essential oils for over 12 years. She always loves to incorporate colorful veggies and essential oils into all of the meals when cooking for her family.
James Yin is a fervent lover of culinary art: from French and Italian cooking to Chinese comfort food. He is obsessed with producing the most addicting taste with simple ingredients, and believes that advanced techniques and careful selection of spices is key to creating great food. James is also a seasoned (pun intended) software engineer and passionate comic book artist.
Featured Artists
Featured Artists
An Bùi
An Bùi is a poet, social worker in training, and water rooster who was born in Viet Nam and raised in San José. Through her writing, she navigates family dynamics, queer Catholic Vietnamese identity, and grief. Her work has been featured in Autostraddle, Kearny Street Workshop, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color anthology. When she’s not writing, she’s leading programs to support youth development, dreaming of family intergenerational healing, and catching as many sunsets as possible.
Website: linkedin.com/in/helloanbui/
Nikhita Chandrashekar
Nikhita Chandrashekar is an BFA Animation/Illustration student at San José State University. In the second Taste of Home Workshop, she shares a food story about her mother's pepper chicken, and how the dish reminds her of childhood memories.
Website: nikhitachandrashekarportfolio.com
A Bowl Full of Love, directed by Ashrita Chavali
San José State University BFA 2021 short film about bisi bela bath, a traditional South Indian dish commonly seen as a comfort food because it's an easy to make one-pot meal. It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, dinner! From director Ashrita Chavali, "I chose this dish because I have some wonderful childhood connections to it and wanted to explore how the experience of making the dish, not just eating it, can bring a family closer together."
Website: www.abfol.com
Bisi bela bath, recipe by Ashrita Chavali's mother
Cook toor dal and rice separately with lots of water. Ratio is 1:1 (for 1 cup rice, 1 cup dal)
Mash both rice and dal separately once cooked and mix both & keep it aside.
Dry roast and powder 5-6 red chilies, 2 tbsp chana dal + 1 tbsp urad dal + 1 1/2 tbsp dhania seeds + 1 inch cinnamon + 3-4 seeds cloves + grated coconut 1 tbsp + 1/2 tsp methi
Cut onions, potato, carrots, and take green peas & lima beans
Heat a pan add 2 tbsp ghee then add curry leaves, onions, peanuts 2 tbsp, haldi saute then add rest of the veggies + enough salt and add water & let cook til veggies are soft. Add hing too.
Then add rice mixture to the above, tamarind juice, and ground masala & mix it well & cook for 10 min by stirring occasionally.
Add 2-3 tbsp of ghee & garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with papad & raita.
Eilaria Maryousef
Eilaria Maryousef is a senior at SJSU pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design. She enjoys working with several forms of media, digital and analog, in her designs, illustrations, and photography.
Social media: @eilariam
Hang Huynh
Hang Huynh is a contemporary artist who loves to create sculptures and oil paintings. She is pursuing a BFA degree in Spatial Art with a minor in Photography.
Instagram: @hang_k_huynh
Yujung Lee
Yujung Lee is a senior at SJSU pursuing a BA in Graphic Design. As someone who likes to experiment with different styles and mediums, she is continuing to explore her love for creating art and curiosity for design.
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