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This month\u2019s featured ingredient: Turmeric!<\/h2>\n

 
\n\"iStock_spices\"Today is an occasion to reflect on what inspired my road to nutrition. Today is the day my husband, Isamu, was born. If he were alive today, he\u2019d be 42 years old.
\nLike many of us, the path that lead me to the powers of food began when my husband was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in April of 2000. I was seven weeks pregnant with Gilbert at the time. Some of you know this story, some of you don\u2019t. Today seemed like the appropriate time to recount it and honor the blessings of life, love, and good food.
\nIsamu loved<\/em> good food! He\u2019d get lost in a scrumptious bowl of homemade ice cream, a grass-fed burger, and his mom\u2019s fried chicken. The first time his mother came to San Francisco to visit him and meet me, he spent our dinner immersed in communing with the deliciousness of the fine meal to which she was treating us. What about me?<\/em> I asked him later, wanting a little bit more of a bridge during my first encounter with my mother-in-law to-be.
\nI too became entranced with food in my 20\u2019s. I\u2019d oscillate between the great culinary choices available to us in the Bay Area farmers and specialty markets, and the intrigue of nutrition that was begging for my attention. When Isamu\u2019s diagnosis came I quickly and effectively learned to marry my interests. The two are far from mutually exclusive. Savory nutrient-dense food is imminently possible!
\nIsamu\u2019s prognosis was grave, and we were game to explore everything. Research showed that food and nutrition were clearly on the menu. Ten years later, it\u2019s such an ingrained part of my life that I sometimes find it difficult to believe that anyone could think otherwise. Why not use the yummiest and most potent medicine we have to heal ourselves, stave off illness, transform our health, and strive for longevity?
\nIsamu outlived his diagnosis by two years. He died in July of 2002, when Gilbert was 19 months old. He was a love, a joy, and a pure blessing. I imagine I\u2019m not the only one who thanks him for my food and healing journey that culminated during his illness. I aim to spread as broadly as I can the gifts that I learned during the ten years I shared with him, during his death, and in my pursuits to understand further the healing powers of food. He\u2019s with me every step of the way.
\nHappy Birthday Isamu!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spring Pea Curry<\/h2>\n

This is a simple and delicious spring curry. We ate it as soup one night and I served it with kelp noodles and more fresh lightly steamed peas the following afternoon. Brown rice or mung bean threads or noodles would work nicely too!<\/em>
\nIngredients<\/strong><\/p>\n