A Yummy, Natural Trend: Perfuming Your Food - and the Launch of Anya's Garden Food & Drink Oils - with a Giveaway
Trends are fun, and it's fun to be on the front end of one. Funny thing about this trend, which is using essential oils for food and drinks, is that it's been around for a long time. I've been cooking with essential oils since 1978, starting out with the humble dill weed oil. Nobody noticed much except my friends and family and customers of my early-80's catering business. The difference is that now it's starting to get attention in the media. Heck, I wanted to launch my latest line, Anya's Garden Food & Drink Oils , way back in 2006. At that time, I wrote a letter to a local chef who was opening a new restaurant, pitching her the idea. She never replied, I got toooo busy with life and work, and had to put my line on the back burner. Now, the timing is better, anyway. There are several mixologists who have been hosting perfumed cocktail soirees for the past year or so. Menket Prince, whom I knew from aromatherapy groups back in the mid-90