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    Home » Food Stories » Virtual Cooking in the News: An Article in the Ventura County Star!

    Virtual Cooking in the News: An Article in the Ventura County Star!

    by Beth Lee · Published: Jan 9, 2013 · Modified: Oct 24, 2019

    Ventura County Star

    This was my friend, Sarene’s (@fringefood) tweet Sunday evening after she and I “skype-cooked” a fish dish together for a photo shoot for an article for the Ventura County Star.

    Ventura County Star

    If you read my first 2013 post, then you know that I am starting a virtual cooking community, Tasting Jerusalem, with my long-time, close friend Sarene Wallace, a communications professional and food writer based in Ventura County in southern California. Her local paper, the Ventura County Star (VC Star) found the concept of the Tasting Jerusalem group and our long-time, long-distance friendship newsworthy (thanks Mark Storer!) and just published a story about us and the Tasting Jerusalem cooking group.

    The headline is: Camarillo foodie, friend host virtual cooking community

    For the photo shoot for the story, they asked us to simultaneously cook a recipe from the cookbook while communicating on Skype. We had so much fun cooking together in two different locations. And happily, both of us finished at nearly the same time and were also wowed by the flavors of the dish – pan-fried fish with harissa and rose. It is on our list of must-cook dishes for the group, for sure.

    Here are some of the photos captured by @gregorytlee and by Sarene’s husband in Camarillo. And be sure to check out the photos by the VC Star photographer who was a pleasure to work with and a great sport about the unusual cooking set-up.

    Ventura County Star

     

    Ventura County Star

     

    Ventura County Star

     

    We hope you too will cook together with us from near or far as we explore the flavors, techniques, and recipes in the cookbook Jerusalem. How do you use technology to stay connected with friends and family, even those in other cities, states, and countries?

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    1. Hannah

      January 11, 2013 at 11:00 am

      Love the skype-cooking!! This is a terrific article. And I will be making this fish recipe soon – it looks delicious.

      Reply
    2. sandy corman

      January 9, 2013 at 7:48 am

      How very cool (the vernacular of today). What fish did you use for the recipe? Looks good!!!

      Reply
      • Beth

        January 9, 2013 at 8:33 pm

        It called for sea bass which wasn’t available that day so I used halibut, skin on. Worked out great. Just needs to be a firm fleshed fish.

        Reply

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