Cooking, Food and Entertaining
Two basic topics fall within this topic:

Simple! Sensible! Sensational!® Cooking.

Do you want to make REALLY delicious food that is REALLY easy to prepare and is REALLY affordable? Do you want nutritious and healthy food? Do you want to be more earth-friendly? Do you want to know how to prepare food efficiently so that you have more free time? I can help you with all of this and more, like how to stock a pantry, how to cook one day for the entire week, and how to develop a new appreciation for food! I can help you enhance your presentations to please yourself, your family and your friends! I have over 25 years of experience doing this, and I can help you! Call me at 773.508.9208 or e-mail me at bret@god-dess.com to begin to change your existing culinary life!

My individually customized services include:

1. Coming into your home to teach you (and perhaps a group of family and/or friends) a variety of recipes using your own equipment and resources.
   
2. Helping you organize your kitchen to save time.
   
3. Consulting on recipes and décor for a variety of entertaining options.
   
4. Demonstrating time-saving preparation techniques that will ensure delicious, healthy food every day of the week.
   
5. Adjusting your existing recipes to enhance flavor, ease, health and earth-friendliness.
   
6. Designing menus for everyday dining as well as for special occasions and events.
   
7. Speaking to your company, organization or circle of friends about a variety of food-, cuisine- and entertainment-related topics, including the scientific aspects of healthful eating, and include the art of incorporating the scientific information into the preparation of quick, easy, delicious food.
   
8. Writing articles for your publication on a variety of
   food-, cuisine- and entertainment-related topics.
   
9. Adapting my skills and knowledge to your specific requests, so if you have an idea, just ask me! I’m here to help you live better lives.

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YES, You CAN Eat It! Fun with Phyla.

When I was teaching paleontology, I tried different ways to keep students’ attention. In addition to teaching about ecology, evolution and functional anatomy, I often taught them how to cook a lot of these less-than-familiar organisms. A phylum is a basic category of categorizing organisms within the five (or more) kingdoms.
This project is significant because:

1. it encourages consumption of lower trophic levels (eating lower on the food chain), which has ecological/environmental significance.
   
2. it is intended for (a) the casual cook looking for something “different,” (b) the professional chef seeking a new perspective on ingredients, (c) the biologist seeking a new perspective on the natural world, and (d) every skill level and interest in between.
   
3. technical data are available, but they are presented at a general level that does not require specialized knowledge.
   
4. it offers fun, shocking, highly educational, and sometimes whimsical information.

For those of you wanting something “out of the box,” “mind-stretching,” or just plain “different,” I offer attention-grabbing lectures, writings and discussions. These topics are ideal for people or groups with an interest in unusual cooking, exotic entertaining, practical environmentalism, and the extension of the biological sciences into everyday lifestyle.

To contact Bret, please call 773.508.9208 or e-mail bret@god-dess.com.