The Healthy Dish is one year young!
Piña Colada (Photo by Margarita Persico in Costa Rica)
The site was launched a year ago in New York City on October 11, 2010. We have written on food topics from A to Z. From Aphrodisiac, to Diabetes to food Photography. Written on ethnic food and featured profiles on chefs, physicians and centenarians. On the first day, The Healthy Dish featured in honor of healthy African American Southern U.S. cuisine, Collard Greens – Soul Food, a nutrient rich vegetable, andSofrito, a natural Puerto Rican condiment, and Caravan of Dreams, a profile about a Spaniard restaurateur in New York City was published that week. Healthy lifestyle is the focus of the site, which is why posts as those featuring successful weight loss and diets including a movie on Bill Clinton’sdramatic weight loss and other stories were featured.
Beauty, food safety, food art, recipes, news, feature stories and movies were showcased during the year. I wrote wherever I landed—New York, Boston, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and California. Dishes from Asia, Italy, Costa Rica,Puerto Rico, Peru, Venezuela and many others were featured. Drinks, nut and seed milk recipes were shared. And to my surprise, one of those drinks, sesame milk, was the most viewed post followed by a wonderful dessert, Coconut Date Balls. Breakfast, dinner, snacks and a menuwere shared with readers.
There were so many more food and health stories I want to tell and much more recipes to share. I wrote and published nearly 200 posts this first year, including a diabetes series, childhood obesity and centenarian. This site is a labor of love. Perhaps it explains why visitors came from over140 countries/territories. Thank you!
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Art work by handsome husband. (Photo: Margarita Persico)
I like to thank the contributing writers– Carmen “July” Marrero, a vegetarian chef,Anghely Almonte, a mom and contributor of “TINKER BELL” juice, June Erlick,the editor-in-chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, Bruno Pezzuolo, Italian restaurateur in Costa Rica, and photographer Carl Warner and many other photographers from Flickr and who donated their time, photos and/or recipes. Also like to thank my publisher, Daniela Caride, at The Daily Tail. A special thank you to The National Association of Hispanic Journalist (NAHJ) and Knight Digital Media Center (KDMC) at UC Berkeley for all their support and training. This year I was a fellow atKDMC‘s Web 2.0.
Above all, a special thank you to all our readers!
A Piña Colada toast to good health! Cheers!
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