FoodLife
FoodLife is a collaboration between me (food expert) and Bruce Stanley (life coach and designer), presenting interactive ways of experiencing Life to the full through Food.
FoodLife workshops explore positive and practical ways of developing our engagement with life (especially maximising our happiness), incorporating food in relevant ways and always involving eating something delicious!
At Wychwood Festival FoodLife presented ‘Happiness and Chocolate’, featuring a super-taster challenge, chocolate-tasting and an exploration of our understanding of pleasure whilst watching hand-made truffles being finished (then eating them).
Two hundred people participated in Happiness and Chocolate at Greenbelt 2008 (and one supertaster was identified!). At Greenbelt 2009 and 2010, we led Festival Foraging for up to 200 early-rising festival goers on behalf of EarthAbbey… finding over 40 useful plants at Cheltenham racecourse and sharing tastes of produce we’d made with some of them; (Jack-by-the-Hedge Mustard is shockingly good) See this blog post for more detail from our 2009 foray.
2012 News update! Have a look at Fine Pluck for the latest on our new herbal teas venture - not with imported ingredients like most companies, but our own-grown / harvested botanicals. Bruce has designed a beautiful ‘Free Teas’ poster available from our site so you can harvest your own as well as buy ours!