Chef LaLa spices up the show floor

Shopping the trade show floor like a farmer’s market, Chef LaLa strolled up and down the aisles choosing fresh, organic produce, exotic organic oils and spices, innovative sauces, and other ingredients for her noontime culinary demonstration.

Tantalizing aromas began to waft throughout the venue as Chef LaLa’s demonstration drew in a standing room only crowd hungry for her creative cuisine.

The feisty chef delivered wisecracks among cooking tips, (don’t cut your herbs wet, they turn into mush), nutritional information (she’s a certified nutritionist), and trivia (did you know the hottest trend in Latin food is chips?), as she cooked and directed her legion of Joliet Junior College cooking school assistants.

The demonstration entitled “Latino and Asian Fusion with Organic Ingredients” was a free form, spontaneous mix of dishes that ended up on sample plates for the audience to devour.

And devour we did! Curried shrimp, marinated cucumber salad, coconut Thai chicken with jasmine rice and a corn and eggplant relish – yum!

Learn more about Chef LaLa and tune into The Today Show on July 1st for her segment on Fancy Cooking.

Up next: Chef Rick Bayless!