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Daily cooking becomes a pleasure: Cuisine Mei Wen Ti and aromasysabores


By aromasysabores (Visit website)





That's Olivia Guinebault's motto: daily cooking becomes a pleasure. Based on that philosphie she created Cuisine Mei Wen Ti or what in simple Christian would mean no problem or worries when cooking, and that's what her whole book is about. But let's start from the begining because, hey, you haven't meet her yet. I'll tell you the story about how I meet her.

I've meet Olivia in Shanghai, China thanks to a dear mutual friend, my comadre Nathaly. She invited me to enroll at one of Olivia's workshops on French Cooking: and I accepted. I went. I learned. I cooked. I had fun. I loved everything about it, the class, her style and of course the food but honestly speaking I never came back not because I didn't wanted too but because I was already working on my own project: aromasysabores, the blog and the Cooking Workshops.

So, time went by, and we (Oli et moi) just keep bumping on each other several times on parties and social events, keeping track on each other's work, exchanging one or two tips and gossips on the culinary scene of the Paris of the Orient.


Last April when I was still placidamente living my Shanghai expat vida loca, I send an email to Olivia inviting her to be a guest chef on aromasysabores.
- I would love tuuu- she said with her very sexy french accent. - Buut (frenchie accent insert again) I'm so busy these days finishing my book that I don't know if I have time for you. Buut I have a contraoffer to make you: Wouldn't you like to do some of my book food styling and photographie??
- Yes my dear. I would love too! - I immediately replied before she could even reconsider the offer.
- Ok, buuut you know, I'm like really working on deadlines already. We need to start ASAP.
- Ok girl, mei wen ti lah! - I replied


So for the next couple of weeks Olivia and I worked from early morning till late on her baby. It was a wonderful experience where we both learned so much about food photography but specially because we had the chance to became closer. Even if it that closiness would be last only some weeks. Nobody (O et moi) would know that 2 weeks later I would be saying Farewell my concubine to my beloved Shanghai, and nobody would know she would be doing the same 3 months later. Ah, you know la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida.

Few more months later and Olivia's baby is alive and kicking: Cuisine Mei Wen Ti the book, where she shares some of her best (tried and tested) French recipes with a mediterranean twist in English and Mandarin (yes, Madamoiselle Guinebault is fluent in Mandarin.). Which is why this book is a must for every expat living in China.


Pantry Magic Shanghai (to buy the book)



Spanish pliss!


Ese es el lema de Olivia Guinebault: el placer de cocinar todos los días, y basado en ello creo los Talleres de Cocina Cuisine Mei Wen Ti o lo que en simple cristiano se traduce a Cocinar sin problemas, y eso es de lo que trata su libro de Cocina del mismo nombre. Pero hay que re-comenzar por el principio, hey, después de todo aun no la han conocido. Así que les contare la historia de como la conocí.

Conocí a Olivia en Shanghai, China gracias a una querida amiga mutua, mi comadre Nathaly quien me invito a inscribirme a uno de sus talleres de Cocina Francesa y yo mas puesta que una rana dije si. Fui. Aprendí. Cocine. Me divertí. Me encanto todo, el estilo peculiar tan cool de Olivia de ensenar, la comida (por supuesto) pero para ser honesta debo decir que no regrese nunca a sus talleres, no porque me faltaran ganas; sino porque ya estaba yo trabajando en mis propios proyectos: aromasysabores, el blog and los Talleres de Cocina.

Así que el tiempo paso, y nosotras (Oli et moi) seguimos encontrándonos en cuanta fiesta o evento socia habia en nuestro circulo expat, rápidamente poniéndonos al día, compartiendo tips o platicando el ultimo chisme de la escena culinaria de la París del Oriente.


El pasado mes de Abril mientras yo me encontraba plácidamente disfrutando de mi expat vida loca en Shanghai, le envié un email a Olivia invitandola a ser una guest chef en aromasysabores, el blog.
- Me encantaría -me dijo con su lindo y coqueto acento francés - Perrrro (insertar acento francés aquí por favor) Estoy tan ocupada en estos días tratando de terminar mi libro que no se si tenga tiempo para ti. Perrrro mejor te propongo yo algo: No te gustaría hacer la fotografia y el food styling de mi libro?
- But of course my horse. Encantada de la vida. - le conteste antes de darle siquiera tiempo de repensar y retirar su amable oferta.
- Ok, perrro sabes, estoy trabajando a marchas forzadas. Necesitariamos comenzar ASAP.
- Ok chica, mei wen ti lah! - le conteste


Así que por las siguientes semanas Olivia y yo trabajamos día y noche en su baby. Fue una experiencia maravillosa donde ambas aprendimos muchisimo sobre food photography pero especialmente porque tuvimos la oportunidad de acercarnos mas como amigas. Aun cuando esta cercanía duraría muy poco. Nadie sabia en ese momento que yo estaría diciendo Farewell ma concubine a mi querida Shanghai tan solo días después de terminado este proyecto así como tampoco nadie sabia que Olivia haría lo mismo tan solo 3 meses después. Ah ya saben la vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida... o como dirían los paisanos del norti - That's life.

Unos cuantos meses mas tarde el bebe de Olivia esta vivito y coleando: Cuisine Me Wen Ti el libro, donde Miss O, comparte algunas de sus mejores recetas (probadas y re-probadas) de su repertorio de recetas Francesas con un twist mediterraneo en, chequen esto: Ingles y Mandarín (si, Mademoiselle Guinebault es bastante fluida, leída y escribida en Mandarín como decimos en mi rancho). Lo cual hace que este libro sea una verdadera joya, un must para aquellas inocentes almas que viven en China.




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