Chinese Cooking Class: Impress your friends and family and learn to make delicious, homestyle Asian dumplings and potstickers THREE ways (steamed, pan-fried and traditional boiled) using both easy, ready-made wrappers AND like-grandma-used-to-make hand-rolled wrappers!Join Natalie & Margaret Keng, Atlanta’s own Chinese Southern Belles and mother-daughter culinary ... Continue Reading
CNN Start Small, Think Big: Chinese Southern Belle Shatters Stereotypes
In this CNN "Start Small, Think Big" feature, an Atlanta-based entrepreneur, Natalie Keng and her mother, public schools Teacher of the Year, Margaret Keng, are infusing flavors of the Far East with the Deep South and in their custom interactive events and award-winning, family-recipe cooking sauces "opening minds, one mouth at a time" and shattering stereotypes.Ni ... Continue Reading
Joy of Being Yourself: Authenticity in Food & Life
Natalie shares how her cooking style and recipes reflect family, a sense of place, and heritage as a Chinese American and Southerner.“As a little kid, I thought it was only about being Chinese,” she says. “That's what I was teased about, so that's how I defined myself – foreign, different, un-American. In actuality, as a native Georgian, I'm not only more American, but ... Continue Reading
Asian Chinese Cooking Class: Dumpling and Pot Stickers “Hands On”
Chinese Cooking Class: Impress your friends and family and learn to make delicious, homestyle Asian dumplings and potstickers THREE ways (steamed, pan-fried and traditional boiled) using both easy, ready-made wrappers AND like-grandma-used-to-make hand-rolled wrappers!Join Natalie & Margaret Keng, Atlanta’s own Chinese Southern Belles and mother-daughter culinary ... Continue Reading
HERstory is Our History in Cooking and Poetry: How to Cook Cow Peas
Traveling back from Charleston, I'm reminded of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor through her cooking and poetry in Vibration Cooking Or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. Here is how to cook cow peas: "Remove all the peas that look weird and wash and soak in cold water. Cook in some kind of boiled meat until done."Here is how to cook red rice: "Fry smoke bacon in a skillet ... Continue Reading