The New Haven Advocate Loves Michelle and HHTV!
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What does New Haven Connecticut’s newspaper The Advocate say about Healthy Helpings TV host Michelle Koen? The Dining section posted an article by Freda Moon entitled “Food Fight Network: Rachel Ray wannabes crowd the internet with homemade cooking shows.” Check this out:
There’s Michelle in Australia, a charming, awkward hipster—with carefully mussed hair and a crafty apron—who produces Healthy Helpings TV (healthyhelpingstv.com) out of her enviable kitchen down under. Up to her eyes in gadgets (an electric pepper grinder, silicone cake molds, a hard-core hand-blender) and the sort of adult accoutrements unusual among the young, creative set (a full set of matching ramekins, say, and Le Creuset pans), she seems to exist in a magical playground of food, art and technology.
More important than her fancy pans and cute clothes is the fact that Michelle, a graphic designer by trade, seems to be a skilled, learned cook—at least as far as one can tell from half a world away. She makes things like quinoa paella (tongue in cheek, she calls quinoa “the new rice”), no-bake ricotta cheesecake (using filo dough) and grilled calamari salad—the sort of fast, healthy yet still-a-bit-glamorous dishes that one would expect from a super-cool Australian hipster-geek.
Congrats, Michelle; an American Newspaper now officially dubs you an “Australian Hipster”!
Michelle has always loved to cook, eat and share food with friends. Now she's here to share her healthy recipes with you and hopefully inspire you to create some of your own.