Category: journal

  • CHAGA, A CURRENT TREND

    I’m regularly irked by Gym-Bars alike, these upselling outlets, preparing herb-infused juices to promote “healthy” choices with absolutely no understanding for combining ingredients that harmonize from a medical viewpoint.

  • WHY WAS SWITZERLAND’S GENERAL CONSULATE SOLD?

    Why was the Los Angeles Residence sold? The Swiss Embassy made many feeble attempts generating cultural outreach, mostly embarrassing ideas about how to bridge Swiss values with a very lax California culture.

  • KETO UPDATE

    Lesson: You either try to loose weight or you want to convert fat into energy… You will regain even more fat if you falsely attempt Keto is a weight-loss solution… Besides, it is a dangerous a trend!

  • HOW TO MANAGE DEPRESSION

    DON’T WAIT ANY LONGER: TREAT YOUR DEPRESSION RIGHT NOW! On my travel out to New York, I sat in the plane next to a lady who, after a quick introduction, involved me in a deep discussion about “food and depression.” It was not one of those agonizing in-flight stories; Actually, I would have loved to…

  • TZABACO CATALOGUE 1995 – RACISM & HATE

    It was a gutsy and risky undertaken to “openly” promote products with a gay couple in the days where gay people hardly were seen kissing in TV shows or gay sports personas would admit their LGBTQ preference.

  • NOTHING WRONG WITH BOTOX

    Botox, not what I expected… In the past, my blogs promoted food products, TCM remedies, and travel experiences, all mixed with a touch of personal views and political ranting. As Private Chefs within the  Estate Managers Association we are super cautious when promoting personal services: We rely on hands-on experience and facts!  During January’s 2014…

  • BUCKET LIST # 17 – with a Temp Agency in California…

    Hired into the staff of Wolfgang Puck’s team. I will never be able to attend a party or eat food in connection with this company. The food prepared and catered in some of these venues is not prepared in any manner I would consider sanitary.

  • ONE BITE vs. A LIFE AS A CHEF

    It takes hours to prepare a dish you consume in minutes… Life of a chef: I miss the jungle, that gypsy blood in me – inherited, I’m convinced… My love for TCM food is to prepare bites that give others pleasure, even for a few minutes. It is truly odd coming back to Los Angeles…

  • CLEVERLY FUSING CULTURES

    The concept of fusing 3000 years of Chinese wisdom with classic French cookery is my unique signature: The strange, brown tea brewed from Luo Huan Guo – Monks Fruit – helps balancing body temperature…

  • CAN YOUR DNA CHANGE?

    Most of us say “we know, the unexplainable exists…” but as a physicist, biochemist, virologist or anyone dedicated to conclusively understand how matter interacts and changes, one cannot just simple adapt a philosophical claim: