Meagan + Kristin = The Curly Pear

Kristin

Hey guys!  My name is Kristin Brookshire.   I’m a 20 something foodie, Registered Dietitian and experimental cook living in Austin, TX with my husband and personal food critic, Ben.  We’ve both grown up here and absolutely love this city.

I grew up in a literal melting pot of cultural foods, with a mother from South America and a father from Japan.  We always had a very interesting hodge-podge of foods representing both countries at home.  My earliest culinary memories are of my Colombian grandmother teaching me how to gently knead and roll out the dough for our favorite “pan de queso” and watching with wide eyes as my Japanese grandmother pulled a long salmon fillet out of the broiler with its head still on!

I believe that when our body is given adequate whole food nutrition it can easily repair and prevent damage from disease or injury, and maintain a normal weight.  In other words, do what it is supposed to do!  What a notion – food can heal!  And not only heal, but prevent (which is even better!). We can eat our way to health.  Doesn’t that make sense?

Inspired to learn more, I majored in nutrition and was trained in the nitty-gritty of food science. More importantly, I became aware of the foods I had been surrounding my self with and began the process towards healthful eating.

Since then I have continued to indulge my passion for nutrition and food.  I am a proponent of “slow food” (choosing whole foods over pre-packaged conveniences), farm to table, sustainable farming practices, and clean eating. Becoming a Registered Dietitian was a natural stepping stone. Through this blog, I aim to be a reliable source of nutrition information and to share my musings and discoveries about food and healthy living.

Bon a Petite!

Meagan

Hi Everyone!

My name is Meagan. I’m a 24 year-old food blogger, registered yoga teacher, wife, soon-to-be mother and general bon vivant. Food and wine are my passion. I remember being 3 years old and my grandmother, Nene, hoisting me up on the counter top to observe as she whipped up cakes, casseroles, breads, biscuits and other Southern-Appalachian food treasures. Everyone in my family cooks–the men included! We all love to gather in the kitchen, swapping recipes, doing dishes and occasionally (Mom!) lighting things on fire. Accidentally. Always accidentally.

That being said, my own history with food is more complicated. I developed an eating disorder at the age of 14 and finally found appropriate treatment at the age of 18. Recovery was slow, full of ups and downs, until something clicked when I turned 22. After years of food education (I started reading Francis Moore Lappé when I was 16, and only gobbled up information about our food system since then), therapy and cooking–it finally sunk into my head that food was not something to fear. Food was to be celebrated and enjoyed. Good food. Wholesome food. Food that brings families, friends and strangers together with that quiet “Mmm!”.

I believe that our behaviors towards our food and our bodies are external reflections of how we feel about ourselves, our relationships, our place in life and our happiness. Changing one area has reverberations in all of them. Anyone may think that what they eat doesn’t matter–but it does! What we consume and how we consume it is paramount to our health and happiness.

I hope to be able to share some stories and information that I’ve learned over these past few years–and information that I’m currently learning. I graduated as a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance in December 2009. My undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas in History and Geography–Natural Resource Management. Which, funnily enough, have more to do with what’s on this website than you’d think.

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