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Pre-order your copy of "Comforting Soups... Colorful Salads" today. Books are due in print before Christmas... December 15th! A Kitchen Vignette (Preface from the book) My stomach is growling… Julie is having fun in the kitchen combining foods into a magnificent offering. I can smell it with each breath. Breaths that are getting deeper and more relaxed as the aromas get richer and more tantalizing. I can hear her scurrying around in the kitchen… dancing really…. and the utensils in the kitchen being used…. Wooden spoons, the knife against the chopping board. The rattling of pots and pans sliding onto the stove top, boiling bubbling liquids, the sound of the oven door opening. I walk by the kitchen door on my way to my office and take a peek to see counters ablaze in the color of fresh cut garden vegetables, herb and spice canisters… a delightful chaos. A spiral notebook lays open with beautiful handwriting penning recipes and ideas from Julie’s hand. Julie once remarked while smiling ... at me… after a meal she had just joyfully prepared, “Food that is made with happiness tastes better, and is far more healing than just plain organic food.” I am wondering how much longer it will be before I can sit down to her delicious, healing and happy food and receive her smile from across the table! Elliott Marie is setting the table and Ian is running out the back door to pick more parsley and cilantro from the garden. These are all signs that the meal is almost complete! I won’t have to wait long now. My stomach has grown ravenous in its hunger. How did Julie come to have such a oneness with her food and its preparation? Was it her growing up on a farm in Kentucky where her Mom and relatives would use any excuse to prepare grand meals? Was it her passion for health that moved her at an early age to choose health foods rather than processed foods? In fact, is it any coincidence that she chose to marry me, at the time I was owner and chef of 20 Carrots Health Food Store and restaurant, where we met? Hum!? Are we seeing a thread here of many influences that have conspired to show Julie’s life long love affair with preparing food? Julie is never happier than when she is sharing her excitement for health and food with her family through her cooking. It is however a happiness that is grounded and focused in her love to bring all the ingredients together for a wonderful meal. The shopping and transporting, the gardening, the harvesting, the cleaning and cutting, the measuring and mixing, the logistics, the singing and the dancing in the kitchen—all of this is the background to her presentation that we simply enjoy. We are eating and I am nourished with her food—its texture, flavor and color. As we sit at the dining room table, the well-used recipe book is behind her on the counter in the kitchen. She begins to reach for it to make an entry, but I hold her reaching hand to my lips… as I ravish her smile. Yes… I am responsible for the slight delay in the manuscript becoming the book you are now holding. But please don’t you delay reaching for this book so laden with the unique and earthy rhythm of Julie’s creativity. May you too feel Julie’s dance in these recipes that they came from! Gregory Brinkley