How to cut an onion | Cynthia Lair | TEDxRainier
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- Author and teacher Cynthia Lair shares a stirring tale about the unexpected benefits of mindful cooking.
As assistant professor and Culinary Curriculum Director for Bastyr University (www.bastyr.edu), author Cynthia Lair is dedicated to educating people about the benefits of whole foods and their role in developing healthy children, young adults and families. Her cookbooks, Feeding the Whole Family (www.amazon.com/...) and Feeding the Young Athlete (www.amazon.com/...) exemplify this. She is also the host of the online cooking show Cookus Interruptus (www.cookusinter..., believing that education is best when accompanied with humor.
This talk was given at TEDxRainier in Seattle on November 10, 2012. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Love this!
For decades I've been aware thoughts are things. Studying the works of Napoleon Hill, Science of Mind, and the like. Cynthia is so right about being mindful while cooking and every other moment of our life.
One of my favorite Ted Talks of all time. Watched this years ago and somehow stumbled upon it again and got to re-visit it today. So glad I did. It feels meditative just to listen to the story. Thank you Cynthia for your inspiration.
Brava Cynthia! Your connection with food, meditation and love is inspiring!
Mindfulness/Being Present is something I have been studying and thinking about a lot lately. What a beautiful concept of applying that to cooking. I have gone for sometime really not enjoying cooking but I think this idea of being present in the process of cooking just might do the trick to bring the Joy of cooking back to me. Thanks Cynthia!!
Okay this made me cry. I love real whole food so much. This kind of information can help change the world...truly. Mindfulness whether you are preparing food or eating it is a VERY powerful way to make choosing the best quality food so much easier.
Cynthia is phenomenal.Bravo. Great TED talk : ) You have to watch her whole family on Cookus Interruptus. Best nutritious recipes, info, humour. Time well spent.
Well said. I believe that is the mediation if you really into the things or you are present in the moment. Really amazing.
"And I have no idea what I'm going to do with that onion, but I trust it's going to be something good."
I don't know what it is yet, but there's meaning behind this phrase. Meaning that speaks books upon books of wisdom that I can apply to a big part of my life!
My right ear enjoyed this
Cynthia, you rock the Casbah, and my kitchen, as always! Beautiful presentation. Congratulations.
I will never cut an onion the same way ever again. But she did say we rarely cut it across the equator. Hmmm....wondering when we do. lol I could listen to her talk all day. She is very inspirational. Would so enjoy a cooking class with her.
I thought she was going to say to keep it in the fridge not to make you cry, but she only says how to make you smile!
Agreed. I have that same knife, it's capable of slicing through an over-ripe tomato just with its own weight when properly sharpened - yet she is having to push down pretty hard to cut the onion.
Would love to take her cooking class!
Great talk! Cynthia is now officially Italian!
What a darling lady xxxx lovely talk
Loved this talk, just wanted to jump thru the screen and give her a sip of my water :)
What a wonderful person! I am not going to cut my onion the same way I did it before - ever.
I had a really bad day today and was actually having some pretty dark thoughts, and this totally soothed me. I need to take up cooking. And stop treating my body like a trashcan.
Thank you Cynthia for a beautiful lesson :-)Namaste.
Good lord, get this woman a glass of water.
If you don't know about mindfulness, movement meditation, you should check out Thich Nhat Han and go to one of the retreats at one of their monasteries. We eat, cook, drink tea, etc. completely in mindfulness. It's amazing and life changing. Present moment/wonderful moment.
Absolutely true!
Never thought you could make a 10 minute video on cutting an onion 😂
And somehow, apparently my Mac got set to play audio only through the left channel. Thank you for proving I'm not going crazy!
This autoplayed after an onion ted talks skit, took me 2 1/2 minutes before i realized this wasn't the onion.
Whatever she makes, it won't be onion rings... Don't ignore the horizontal cuts and the secondary vertical cuts. A dull knife wouldn't have made those cuts that easily. A whole fresh (it looked like a Spanish) onion is tight and grabs a knife. Try it yourself.
The sound is off in the left speaker channel.
Thank God for reiki symbols before food is served as I'm a right angry sod. Multi tasking I suppose does that! On the other hand, ...
Holy fucking Vallium!
Why the hell am I crying right now?
Preaching to the choir
nice ending
She needs to watch Senator Rubio's videos. Learn about water management.
Watch the video, its not just cutting onion!
Then y were u watching this Kevin? How r u doing these days?
I am here because im trying to conquer a Greek man´s heart lol I mean a Greek man´s stomach ...
Hell yeah it is!!! >:(
Um.. but I already knew how to cut an onion like that...
i cut my finger once trying to cut an onion
My left ear is lonely.
whatever she is cuting , she is not cutting just onions!!!
Amen. So you too noticed how dull that knife was, eh? A real cook keeps his knives as sharp as a straight razor. Or buys news ones every 6 months or so. ronco.com/products/sixstar-knives.html
its not nice to cuss on such a nice vid :( think about what you say
She should learn the zen of knife sharpening.
Eight minutes of propaganda, one minute of onion slicing. Bait, and switch. A lot of self-aggrandizement about the wonderfulness of her teaching technique, spiced with hints of Eastern pagan philosophy. Watch cooks in a commercial kitchen sometime; not a lot of mediation there, unless they can sneak out into the back alley to smoke at bit. Quite a lot of dominating meanness too from the head chefs. Her slicing technique will be good for making chili or Tex-Mex recipes.
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