Madison chef releases new plant-based cookbook
After writing recipes for her restaurants and receiving requests from her clients and customers, Lauren Montelbano decided to give cookbook writing a try.
February 8, 2021 5:00 PM Erica Krug
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Local Chef Lauren Montelbano just released her first cookbook, Grounded: Conscious Plant-based Cuisine.
Chef Lauren Montelbano, formerly of Surya Cafe, is the reluctant author of a new cookbook, “Grounded: Conscious Plant-based Cuisine.”
“Honestly [writing a cookbook] was never anything that I personally wanted to do!” Montelbano says with a laugh. “I hate quantifying recipes. I really just enjoy the creative freedom of cooking and the personal expression. I am not culinary school trained I learned from many women around the world and they didn’t use recipes either. ‘A handful of this, a pinch of this…’ to quantify that to me was kind of my worst nightmare.”
Local chefs, bakers partner together in cookie box collaboration to raise funds for Harambee Village
21 businesses will come together for this year s Culinary Ladies Collective cookie grab.
January 19, 2021 9:55 AM Maija Inveiss
Courtesy of Culinary Ladies Collective
For the fourth year in a row, the Culinary Ladies Collective a network of female chefs, cooks, producers and artisans is launching a cookie box sale dedicated to raising funds for women’s health.
In the past, the group has raised more than $60,000 for Planned Parenthood, but this year, the proceeds will support Harambee Village. According to a release, Harambee Village is “a collective of birth professionals who support women and families with a specific aim to dismantle disparities of race, class, gender and sexuality that lead to negative birth experiences.”