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
Vegetarian Asian Chinese Cooking Class “Hands On”
Ni Hao, Y’All! Fresh tofu, fried tofu, dried tofu, smoked tofu, grilled tofu, five-spice tofu, fermented tofu. Tofu noodles, tofu pockets, tofu custard… the world of tofu is versatile, diverse, healthy and unlimited! Tofu is popular in a myriad of Asian and American dishes. You’ll get a cultural, historical and culinary “Tour de Tofu” and soybean curd, where to find popular ... 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
Breaking Barriers by Breaking Bread–and Egg Rolls, Chinese Southern Belle Shatters Stereotypes, Supports Diversity, Inclusion through Food and Culture
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. Breaking ... 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