Anushka Garnier: Culinary Mousai [Toronto]

Hello Mousai Collective!

I’m your host Lindsay Cabrera, and before I introduce my next guest, I’d like to mention that there’s a brand new Mousai Mix up on our SoundCloud page curated by Redfreya, who was featured on the last episode!

This week, you’ll be meeting Culinary Mousai - Anushka Garnier! With 15 years of experience in both the health and culinary industries, Anushka knows how to make nutritious taste delicious. She is the owner and operator of leaf + bone - a  Toronto based boutique natural catering + event company that offers a variety of services centralized around food and wellness.  

After receiving an msc in nutrition and training in some of London, England's busiest kitchens, the conventional practices of cooking didn't always fit into the nutritive spectrum of Anushka's world. She chose to pursue a course that challenged food as we know it, searching for healthier and cleaner ways to fuel the body without compromising flavor and familiarity.

Anushka traveled to live, work, and learn in places such as the Caribbean, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to enrich her practice. During this time, she cultivated new techniques involving open-fire, smoking, preservation, fermentation, and manipulation of raw foods. 

Working closely with farms in small rural establishments allowed her to gain an intimate understanding of the origins of food, biodynamic diversity and sustainability, and truly understanding earth's natural food resources thus inspiring her brand leaf + bone. 

Today, we discuss the food influence of her Trinidadian background, her natural food catering company ‘leaf + bone’ the synergy between food and spirituality and so much more!

This foodie Mousai is a culinary artist to watch and you can follow her on Instagram @leafandboneto.

I hope you enjoy this episode and here’s Anushka Garnier on Mousai Collective! 

 

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