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Chef Jocelyn Lee

I am excited & honored to be a guest chef on Chef Alain’s A Votre Sante–To Your Health Newsletter. Merci beaucoup!

Chef Jocelyn’s Culinary Story

Born & raised in San Francisco, California – I was influenced by my mother’s passion & discipline for traditional yet broad Asian-fusion home cooking made from scratch with fresh produce & unprocessed foods. As my father ran his business in San Francisco’s Italian North Beach District, my mother worked 2 part-time jobs in S.F.’s Union Square & Chinatown. In between her jobs, she would come home & prepare complete elaborate dinners for our very large family, including my grandfather! Being the “Cinderella” of the household, I took responsibility of household chores to relieve my mother and oftentimes prepped & cooked family dinners per her instructions & techniques. Immersed in San Francisco’s diversity of cultures, we enjoyed & learned appreciation of cuisines from all over the world.

Cooking overseas

I lived overseas for many years and cooked with amazing local cooks & chefs in Nepal, India, Singapore, Hawaii, and Thailand. In Nepal, I opened & operated a health food restaurant-juice bar-bakery serving foreign consulates, mountain trekkers & tourists, WHO team members, Peace Corps workers, and diplomats…international airlines inflight magazines and travel guide publications wrote raving reviews on this establishment.

Back in California

In Marin County, California I founded and operated 2 full service Fine Dining Japanese Cuisine Restaurants serving celebrities, rock stars, politicians & renowned dignitaries whilst earning 4 out of 4 stars & glowing accolades by San Francisco’s restaurant critics. Food safety always in the forefront, I wrote the first restaurant-retail HACCP plan validated by MCED.

Chef Jocelyn’s company: Gourmet Rail Services

Later, my company Gourmet Rail Services, contracted with Amtrak California for 14 years as its exclusive preferred caterer-general services vendor earning high ratings & mentions by critics for fresh & restaurant quality food. I am now a freelance Culinary Development-Quality Assurance-Nutrition Value Analyst proudly working with San Francisco’s artisan gourmet food companies.

For complete details of my professional highlights, please visit LinkedIn at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gourmetinmotionjlee

It’s Your Life Magazine

by Joyce Wheeler – Publisher

This is a new magazine published by my new friend in health, Joyce Wheeler. It is loaded with great and informative article on all sorts of health-related issues and well as gardening tips and recipes. You might even find one of my essay or recipe in there once in a while. Enjoy! Chef Alain.

It’s Your Life Magazine is a digital, natural living, magazine whose focus is to aid others in living a healthier life naturally.

 There are two columns: one for asking Dr Jennifer Weinberg MD, MPH, MBE health questions you would like to deal with naturally. Ask the gardener is the second column by Mary Smith of Mary’s Heirloom Seeds who has taught adults and children alike how to use organic gardening methods.

Sign up on our updates page to learn when new issues are released, receive one unique article bi-monthly on a natural living topic such as a specific herb, its benefits, and how you can use it. Coming soon is Blog Talk Radio and those on the list will receive notices of upcoming shows. If you are a natural living writer and would like to contribute to our magazine we would love to have you.

You can get more information on all these topics and more by visiting our site at itsyourlifemag.com.

In Health,

Joyce Wheeler

My newest favorite site, DiabeTV is a virtual place conceived to inspire, educate and inform diabetic people on ways to improve their lifestyle. Through scientific information and practical tips they hope to convince you that diabetes is not an obstacle to enjoy a healthy, long lasting, and productive life. 

Better yet, they feature my recipes, posting one new recipe every week.

Contributors page: http://blog.diabetv.com/contributors/

Chef Alain’s  recipes: http://blog.diabetv.com/author/chef-alain-braux/

All my recipes are offered in three languages.

For the main site in English, Spanish and Portuguese, follow these links:

English: www.diabetv.com

English blog: blog.diabetv.com

Spanish: blogesp.diabetv.com

Portuguese: blogbr.diabetv.com

Thank you for your interest in my work and Bon Appetit!

Chef Alain

This website by David Blair has an amazing amount of information regarding GMOs.

I highly recommend you go visit it once in a while HERE

What does GMO mean? Genetically Modified Organism is the most common usage. The acronyms GEO (Genetically Engineered Organism) or simply GM or GE are also used. Genetic modification of food is not new. For centuries, food crops and animals have been altered through selective breeding, the scope for exchanging genetic material is much wider using genetic engineering.

In theory, genetic engineering allows genetic material to be transferred between any organism, including between plants and animals. For example, the gene from a fish that lives in very cold seas has been inserted into a strawberry, allowing the fruit to be frost-tolerant. Fascinating. But more so, it’s scary. The most common genetically modified (GM) organisms are crop plants.

Right now, we have the choice to avoid GMOs . We can choose organic products, which, by law, are required to be grown and processed without the use of GMOs. We also have the right to know what we are eating, and the right to make informed choices about what we eat. This website acts as a clearinghouse and brings you as much information as we can find to this single, convenient location. Email us if you find other sources we have missed.

More HERE

Chef Alain

Hello Gluten-Free Friends.

I am impressed by what my new GF friend Mara Alexander is doing on Gluten Free World TV.

She does interviews, write articles and has a very well put together TV blog.

Check it out at: http://glutenfreeworld.tv/

To all my Autism connections and friends. Check out Rhonda Spellman’s new book Asperger’s Rhymes with Bass Burgers, a collection of stories shared by her son Oliver about his brother Tanner.

You can find it HERE. Enjoy!

Chef Alain

My new GF friend, Becky Rider, is the lady behind the very helpful website Living Gluten Free: http://www.living-gluten-free.com

She offers a lot of common sense advices, suggestions and recipes. I highly recommend a visit to my new friend Becky.

Chef Alain Braux

My newest friend are Iliane, Rupert and Cisco at the Horse Boy Foundation.

http://www.horseboyfoundation.org/

The Horse Boy Foundation Intro

If you haven’t heard about it yet, they made the movie: The Horse Boy

More about the Horse Boy movie here:

The Horse Boy Film

Bring the healing effects of horses to autism families

Our non-profit has existed since 2007 with a simple mission to bring the healing effects of horses, nature and supportive community to autism families free of charge.

If you haven’t had a chance yet, check out my new website Healthy French Recipes and have lots of fun with it.

www.HealthyChefRecipes.com

A Votre Sante

Chef Alain Braux

I love to visit Benini’s Scupture Ranch every once in a while to see what new fascinating art has sprouted from the Hill Country earth. It’s a site to know and visit as soon as you read this.

I have been invited at Lorraine Benini‘s Arts Encounters as a speaker and love to see what she kind of artistic surprise she has for us.

www.Benini.com

The Benini  Galleries and Sculpture Ranch is located in the Texas Hill Country, six miles west of Johnson City, about an hour’s drive from Austin and from San Antonio. The project is open for visitations from ten to six Friday, Saturday and Sunday.. We do live and work on the ranch so if you are travelling or need to check another day, call us..

Originally established in Central Florida in 1978 as Benini’s studio, this fine arts project has evolved into a facility that includes a 14,000 sq.ft. Studios Building with a fine arts library, exhibit galleries featuring 40 years of Benini’s paintings, and guest Italian artists, as well as the Sculpture Ranch on the surrounding 140 acres.

Our good friend Terry is helping all of us self-published authors by posting our books on his web site for additional exposure.Thank you very much Terry for all you do for all of us independent authors. Alain

http://www.booksandnovelstoread.com

Pour mes amis Francais du Canada – bonjour tout le monde – voici mon site prefere de bonne sante dans votre beau pays. A voir ici:

http://www.health-local.com

A Votre Sante et a bientot.

Chef Alain Braux

For my Canadian friends – hello everyone – here’s my favorite health site in your beautiful country. Check it out at:

http://www.health-local.com

To Your Health and see you soon.

Chef Alain Braux

Ted Kallmeyer has a wonderful blog called Diet-Blog.com at

http://www.diet-blog.com/

and an in-depth web site which analyzes different diet called EveryDiet.org at

http://www.everydiet.org/

If you’re interested in an unbiased critique of different diets, this is the place you should go to. I do.

Chef Alain Braux

This is my favorite food magazine when it comes to local food events, farmers, markets, recipes and all things food-related in and around Austin.

Marla Camp, Edible Austin Publisher is a woman full of passion for food and especially LOCAL FOOD.

Without her, Austin would not be as exciting food-wise. Thank you Marla for your support of all things local, including me ;-)

http://www.edibleaustin.com

Alain

I have recently found this great little company that distributes self-published authors only.

Check them out at http://www.selfpublisherstore.com

Good luck to you if you are a self-published author.

Alain

Oleg and I go back 7 years when I had the opportunity to visit Lviv in Ukraine.

I fell in love with his graphic and sculpture work.

He was already internationally known besides the US. I offered him to be his agent and to help him publish his first Nort American book: The Hand. We did in 2003. He since moved to Montreal and is a well known art teacher and artist there. I am very happy for his success on this continent. I own a few of his pieces in my own little museum at home.

Thank you Oleg for your witty and amazing work.

http://www.canadiancartoonists.com/cartoonist_dergachov.html

Kimberly Freeman, guitar-leader extraordinaire, singer-songwriter of alternatively dark, witty, sad and funny songs is back by the skin-beating Number 3 (PJ Evans). I especially like Kimberly’s more introspective songs like Pretty Song, Believe in Me, Forgotten Boy and Out to Play in her newest album Sleep. Check it out. You’re in for a very pleasant surprise.

http://www.oneeyeddoll.com/