{"id":13553,"date":"2011-06-01T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?page_id=13553"},"modified":"2011-06-01T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:44:32","slug":"about-andrea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/about-andrea\/","title":{"rendered":"About Andrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi and thanks for stopping by!\u00a0 My name is Andrea and most times you can find me in the kitchen cooking up something delicious. \u00a0If I&#8217;m not in the kitchen then I&#8217;m probably reading about food and researching recipes. \u00a0Or I&#8217;m in the gym tossing around heavy things. \u00a0 I\u2019m a 30 something married to a software developer (His name is Scott) and we live in Fort Collins, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6831\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-07-09_me_cooking-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Me cooking \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-07-09_me_cooking-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ohc-07-07-09_me_cooking.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants to Colorado having just made the big move in the summer of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>We moved because we wanted to see what the West and what mountain life was all about. \u00a0And we wanted access to more craft beer. True story.<\/p>\n<p>We used to live in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio and called that home for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Food Embrace started out as\u00a0<strong>Off Her Cork<\/strong> back in 2008. \u00a0It was created so I could have a place to store my recipes along with documenting our journey towards cleaner eating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cleaner eating&#8221; means relying less on processed, pre-made, and packaged items and cooking more from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>The recipes I post are my own unless otherwise noted. \u00a0I create recipes that are easy to make along with being healthy and tasty.<\/p>\n<p>My food philosophy can be summed up in three statements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat real food.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy life as much as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Beer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m a certified health coach (through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.integrativenutrition.com\" target=\"_blank\">Integrative Nutrition<\/a>)\u00a0and also have my Beer Server Certification through the <a href=\"http:\/\/cicerone.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cicerone Certification Program<\/a>. I work in the Craft Beer Industry and am working towards getting my full Cicerone Certification along with studying Brewing Sciences. \u00a0I have big career goals along with big health goals that I&#8217;m\u00a0focused on at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I am a\u00a0recipe developer and would love to work with you on a project. <a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just drop me a note.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With <a title=\"Hello From Fort Collins\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/08\/hello-from-fort-collins\/\" target=\"_blank\">our big move to Colorado<\/a>, both my husband and I fell off the healthy eating train. \u00a0We are back to taking charge of our health and getting our lives back. \u00a0Much like when I first started this blog, this space is all about our healthy eating journey, what that means to us, and why we make the decisions that we do about food choices.<\/p>\n<p>You can find<a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/food-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\"> my food philosphy here<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s all about embracing real foods and taking the time to nourish our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>We are back to doing just that and I hope you stick around for the journey!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi and thanks for stopping by!\u00a0 My name is Andrea and most times you can find me in the kitchen cooking up something delicious. \u00a0If I&#8217;m not in the kitchen then I&#8217;m probably reading about food and researching recipes. \u00a0Or I&#8217;m in the gym tossing around heavy things. \u00a0 I\u2019m a 30 something married to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4KYWa-3wB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}