Food as love. Food as creativity. Food as art. Food as health. Food as consciousness. Food for the sharing.
Simple, delicious, and sometimes decadent… veg-centric cuisine.
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!
My movers are coming tomorrow and I am NO where near packed. This, after the most riveting weeks of work ever (more on that later). So needless to say I will keep today’s intro short and sweet :). Today, I want to introduce you to Jennifer of Splendid Low Carbing. Read more
Yes, yes. I know you’ve seen this soup before. But I just love that picture and wanted to post it again in this teaser post letting you know about my new role as a contributor to the site: The Blacker the Berry Food. I am the official “vegetarian and food Read more
As you know, this year I started a new series called “Favorite Veg on the Web,” where each month I feature one of my favorite food bloggers. This month, there’s two small catches. First, I’ll be featuring two food bloggers, one this Saturday and one next Saturday, as opposed to Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more