Conscious Living, Clean Eating: The Deeper Meaning of Halal

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016
Time: 6pm Reception; 6:30pm Talk
Where: Conference Hall, Main Bldg, American Islamic College

Yvonne Maffei, MA is a graduate of International Studies & Spanish from Ohio University. She has grown up with a real passion for cooking and writing, setting out to make a career out of combining the two. After years of being a language teacher, she moved her teaching platform from the classroom to the internet by writing about halal food and cooking for a global audience. Today Yvonne publishes MyHalalKitchen.com, gives cooking classes, lectures about halal cooking and healthy eating, and consults schools on how to source healthy, halal ingredients and prepare fresh new ideas for school lunches. She has written the cookbook, Summer Ramadan Cooking to teach about the food rituals of the holy month as well as the global diversity of halal recipes. Yvonne’s second cookbook, My Halal Kitchen: Global Recipes, Cooking Tips, Lifestyle Inspiration, will be published in July 2016. It aims to teach the basics of halal cooking and baking, and showcase classic American, French, Italian and Latin recipes made with all natural halal substitutes.