Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

We are joined again by Natasha Ho.

She's the founder of the Well-Traveled Palette, which just a little background on that.

It's a fast-running company focused on helping food lovers learn how to grow and cook

a variety of meals that are super tasty, so you just have more fun in the kitchen and honestly,

I will say it's really weird for our gardener to admit this on Natasha, but I always struggle

with cooking because I'm actually really obsessed with the sort of ecosystem, the ecology side,

the science side of the gardening. And to me, that's my biggest interest not to say I don't like

to cook, of course, but that's where I always lie. And so I sometimes can struggle in the kitchen.

And so I think it's just a great, it's going to be a great week and it has been a great

week. And today we're talking about creating meals from the garden that have flavors from

around the world. And so I suppose maybe let's just start with a little bit of your background there.

Sure. Well, my introduction to working with flavors from around the world was I went to culinary

school and I thought it was amazing, but I would go out to restaurants and try foods that were just

out of this world. The flavor combinations were things that I would never have thought I

thought they were so inspired and interesting. And they would be from places like the Philippines

or Malaysia or Brazil. And I wanted to understand how to work with these kinds of flavors because

that wasn't what I was learning in the classroom at culinary school. And so I decided to leave

my life behind. I was living in New York City at the time and decided to travel around the world

for three months. And during that course of that time, taking cooking classes, learning from

other chefs as well as home cooks, how to work with the flavors of the foods that they had at

their disposal. And using what I learned in order to bring that back and share it with other

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