Julie Hutslar BioAs my 4 year-old niece informed me, when you’re an artist, everything you do is art and I live by that. I started collecting spices and cookbooks when I moved from the SF Bay area in 1999 to a rural area. Ethnic vegetarian is my favorite and I love creating beautiful menus, delicious and healthy meals, matching place settings and accompanying decorations. Indian and N African are some of my favorites, with Mediterranean and Mexican close behind. Also, Russian, French, Italian, Japanese have wonderful non-meat options.This meal I will be preparing are some of my favorite Indian specialties~ Pak Paneer (spinach and cheese), Dal (pink lentils and mung beans) and actually an Ethiopian recipe you often find in Indian buffets (cabbage/carrots and potatoes in fabulous exotic spices) all served with Indian basmati rice. We’ll also have an appetizer of potato fingers rolled in tapioca, iced chai latte, condiments of chutneys and cucumber and yogurt raita with a dessert of mango custard served with fresh fruit.Julie Hutslar