The kitchen is the part of the house where people gather. It's where we create the food that gives us feelings of nostalgia for grandma's cookies or Dad's Spicy Shrimp with noodles. Food is a universal need and one that allows us with a taste or smell to travel in time and location.  Rowena S. took the idea of creating memorable food with an educating twist to create eat2explore. Join Rowena as she and Janna chat about the creation of Eat2Explore and how you can travel the world with cooking, and creating meaningful family time all within the comfort of your kitchen.

ABOUT OUR GUEST | Rowena is the founder and creator of eat2explore, a cooking kit that incorporates family, food, travel, and education. 

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(00:42) My guest is Rowena Scherer. She is the creator of eat2explore

(01:28) The mission behind it is really to teach kids and to have kids learn with their families about the world through food.

(03:08) That's kind of a moment where it dawned on me that I should let my kid fail.

(04:00) That's where eat2explore idea came about, so it sort of following my passion of cooking and traveling and culture and learning and most importantly, education.

(05:31) The other thing, second thing, is expanding their palate. A lot of children, and that's another reason I started is I see a lot of my kids' friends, they only eat pasta and pizza.

(07:49) If you make it a family routine of weekly cooking together and say, "Hey," just pick a weekend. Is it Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday night, or lunch?

(09:45) Yes, that's the uniqueness of eat2explore is we give you all the hard to find spices, sauces, and grain.

(17:02) We have talked before in the past about how in our society, we really lack that quality time, which is such an organic place, the kitchen, the dining room table where the family just shares.

(19:40) It's actually very easy. Cooking is not hard. It's about confidence.

(22:29) I think I told my kids when they were initially cutting, I'm like, "It's okay. It doesn't have to look perfect and as long as you try, I'm glad you try it."

(26:09) Yes. We have a regular one and then we have a vegetarian optional, which is also vegan optional, and then a gluten-free optional.

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