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July 4, 2022
Chef and author Grace O has traveled the world in search of delicious, good-for-you foods. Our latest cookbook is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Anti-Aging Dishes from Around the World: Recipes to Boost Immunity, Improve Skin, Promote Longevity, Lower Inflammation and Detoxify * * * “Over the years I’ve told my patients that when trying to lose weight, or to just get healthier, you don’t have to go on a bland, tasteless diet regimen. This cookbook proves my case.” – Mark Rosenberg, M.D. * * * Chef and author Grace O has traveled the […]
June 20, 2022
Curries made with turmeric and coconut milk are amazingly heart-healthy. Add some ginger and garlic and your heart and arteries will thank you even more. This dish will help reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke because of all of its anti-inflammatory compounds. If you can’t find fresh moringa leaves, you can use green tea powder. To make this a vegan entree, substitute tofu or soybeans for the chicken. Vegan or not, this dish is delicious served over white or brown rice. BENEFITS Curry powder contains curcumin, an anti-inflammatory as powerful as a prescription drug. The fiber in the […]
May 28, 2019
Grace O and some members of the FoodTrients team just returned from a whirlwind trip to France where we met food writers and professionals from around the world, and discovered again how food is truly an international language that connects us all. As one of Gourmand International’s “Best in the World” 2017 award winners for her AGE BEAUTIFULLY Cookbook, Grace and the team were invited to Paris, along with other winners from the past three years, to attend the Gourmand World Summit from March 20 – 22. The 2019 Summit, which was held at UNESCO Headquarters, brought together the huge […]
October 30, 2018
On September 13 at 3:00 p.m., a benefit and Foodtrients tasting event for Bright Halls Foundation was held at the City Club Ballroom in Alphaland Makati City. Grace O (Ouano), the creator of FoodTrients, was honored to be invited back to her home city of Manila by the Bright Halls Children’s Foundation to launch her Age Beautifully Cookbook in the Philippines. Her cookbook, published by Skyhorse Publishing, is dedicated to age-defying and delicious recipes. The cookbook is the winner of numerous awards including Gourmand’s International “Best in the World” Award for Innovation, the Independent Publishers Gold Award, and IPA’s Better […]
January 8, 2018
In May of this year, the FoodTrients team travelled to Yantai, China for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards to receive the ‘Best in the World’ award for Innovation for my most recent cookbook, The Age Beautifully Cookbook: Easy and Exotic Longevity Secrets from around the World. As you can imagine, we sampled extraordinary food during the many days of this event as we traveled to Shanghai and Beijing. One of the highlights was a meal we had at the Fairmont Hotel’s Dragon Phoenix restaurant in Shanghai where we ordered their Peking Duck Three Ways. The beautifully cooked duck was brought to […]
October 31, 2017
On a recent trip to Germany, I stayed in the Sofitel Frankfurt Opera hotel. The Sofitel prides itself on its world-class service and attention to detail. They utterly surprised me when I checked in. To my delight and astonishment, Matthias Schulze, the hotel Butler, had done some research on me before I had arrived. He found out that I was a cookbook author, and asked the pastry chef to prepare this dainty cake in the shape of my Age Gracefully Cookbook. What a thrill!
August 30, 2017
Los Angeles is not just the City of Angels, it’s the City of Food Angels who were out in force on Sunday (July 30) to support the Los Angeles Mission and to offer the over 1,700 people attending the event sample tastings. Angeleno Magazine’s annual Live & Dine LA event, which was held at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, honors the city’s most distinguished chefs and restaurants that help shape and evolve Los Angeles’ culinary scene, and the dishes they served were delicious proof of it. FoodTrients, the cookbooks and website created by Grace O and dedicated to the […]
July 4, 2017
Grace O’s The Age Beautifully Cookbook was awarded the 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards’ top honor — “Best in the World” – in the Innovative category on May 28 at Gourmand’s annual awards event in Yantai, China. Grace O and members of the FoodTrients team traveled to China for the Awards ceremony and were thrilled when Age Beautifully was announced as the winner. Grace O, who was proud to accept the award, said, “It was two and half years in the making, but it has been a labor of love for good foods that can help us look and feel […]
December 18, 2016
After I finished The Age GRACEfully Cookbook, I had so many more ideas for age-defying recipes that I immediately started working on a new cookbook. It’s The AGE BEAUTIFULLY Cookbook: Easy and Exotic Longevity Secrets from Around the World. Both cookbooks have won gold awards in the Independent Publisher’s Living Now Awards. The Awards celebrate the innovation and creativity of newly published books that enhance the quality of people’s lives. It makes me proud and happy that the cookbooks have been recognized for the very reason I wrote them – to help people live more vital and healthy lives. I dedicated […]