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

Orange Veggie “Beef”

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Thanks goodness. Thank goodness. Thank goodness. I said it on Wednesday afternoon after my first friend texted me and asked, “Are your people in Springfield ok?” I said it Wednesday night before I went to bed. I said it Thursday morning after the magnitude of the situation set in, after 
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Braised Fava Beans

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Today, I received an alert on my phone. It said, “NC has issued a code orange air quality action day for ground level ozone concentrations. The region may approach or exceed unhealthy standards.” Ah? Ahem. What does this mean?!?!?!  I’m taking the alert to mean that I am not being 
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Tomorrow’s May 31st!

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I am back physically, but getting back mentally is taking a bit longer than I planned. This weekend I went to visit the city that I’ll be moving to at the end of the summer. Yes, you read correctly… moving. As I’ve mentioned before, I have some exciting transitions approaching 
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Almond Joy Cookies

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Recently, I posted on my fellow food blogger Laura’s site that I completely agreed with her assertion–“it’s hard to photograph brown food.” I don’t know if it’s related to my technique, my unsophisticated point and shoot camera, or to the brown food itself, but I had the hardest time shooting 
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