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

Spirulina Millet Energy Bites and Granola

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Sometimes you win some and sometimes you lose some. This, my friends, was a loss. The failure? Not the concept. I still think the concept was great. My failure was in the proportions (i.e., the execution). Remember my “benefits of spirulina” post? Well, in that post, I talked about how 
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Green Chile Barley Soup

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I found myself in my tiny, little kitchen with bags of bulk grains that I had never used before. It was chilly that day and sure to be chilly in my office that week, so I thought, “I ought to make soup with at least one of these grains.” And 
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