About: Tiffany Griffin

Tiffany M. Griffin is the woman behind Como Water, Washington DC’s premiere veg-centric cuisine consulting company. Through cooking classes, demonstrations, catering, and consultations, Como Water gives people the opportunity to learn how to prepare veg-centric cuisine that boasts maximum flavor, with minimal effort. Tiffany is quickly becoming a go-to expert on the future of veg-centric cuisine, and is a regular contributor to Como Water, the blog, as well as to vegetarian and vegan sites across the Internet. For over a decade, this self-taught, entrepreneurial expert has developed a set of tried and true techniques for making simple, delicious, and sometimes decadent veg-centric dishes. Featured on the Steve Harvey Show and other leading media outlets, Tiffany was born and raised in Springfield, MA. She then earned Bachelors degrees in Psychology and Communications from Boston College and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. She now resides in Washington DC, where she has worked in the US Senate and at a federal agency on issues around health, food, nutrition, and international food aid/development, and of course, as the owner of Como Water. Tiffany gets culinary inspiration from the food she grew up eating, and from her travels throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. She is dedicated to sharing her wealth of knowledge on veg-centric cuisine with others and to help others live by her mantra—love life, live long, and eat veg-centric cuisine!

Recent Posts by Tiffany Griffin

Apple Spice French Toast

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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppyyyyyyyy Friday everyone! Gotta to get to work, so I’m going to keep this short and sweet. Sweet, like this lovely baked French toast. Fall apples were just making their way onto the scene and I wanted a sweet treat to highlight their juicy, tartness. Enter this baked French toast! 
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Rum-Scented Raisin Ice Cream

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I’m pulling this one out of the archives while I work up the blog drafts of all that I’ve been cooking in the past couple of months. I made this ice cream for my friend’s mom. She’s from Venezuela and came to DC this summer, at which time she made 
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Sriracha Steamed Acorn Squash

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There’s something about sweet and spicy flavors that when paired together make my heart go pitter patter. It probably started as a little kid when I discovered the magical combination of Red Hot sauce and syrup on my eggs. Then as a college student I fell in love with Thai 
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Orange Ginger Anasazi Beans

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So besides jet lag waking me up at 3am every day for the past three days, it feels great to be back! I cooked my first “meals” this weekend–a bagel with cream cheese, almond joy rice krispies treats, and carrot-yellow split pea soup; and this morning I even worked out! 
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WHERE have you been?!?!?!??!?!

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It’s been almost a month since I last posted on Como Water… the longest time since starting my blog that I’ve gone without updating it. But I have a legitimate excuse. I swear I do! 😉 Well, to say that the learning curve on my new job has been steep 
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