Sep 2, 2008 7:31 pm US/Eastern
Eating Green And A Healthful Diet
CORAL GABLES (CBS4) ―
These days, one is bombarded with messages of "Go Green", though few have ever thought about eating 'green', one that serves up a rare experience, that challenges the taste buds, benefits the body, and helps protect Mother Earth.
CBS4 Chief Investigative Reporter Michele Gillen found a South Florida chef who can serve up beautiful fruit dishes not easily recognizable and apply the same to lettuces, or even a combination of both.
"These are things I want to reinvent, and I want to serve them in a different way, especially, by introducing more organic products. Local people, say 'Oh, I have that in my backyard, that tree that just sits and rots," explained Kyra White, owner and founder of the Theine Tea Salon in Coral Gables.
She is the master chef of a tea house that is a treasure for the palate and the senses, a tasty recipe for cooking and eating green.
"And you really believe in eating green?" asked CBS4's Gillen.
"I believe in as much green as possible," replied White.
"You've even gone paper free. To save paper, you use your chalkboard and you don't have any menus," observed Gillen.
"I even write my menus on the back of already used papers here, from those faxes you get constantly," said White.
Her life line to the land: local farmers who personally deliver the greens.
"When I think of green, it means eating what's natural and good for you, things that don't have all those preservatives," White said.
Her masterpieces of Mother Nature look almost too good to eat or drink.
"Eating green: would you ever have thought of that before?" Gillen asked one restaurant patron.
"No, not until we met Kyra and we've been coming here. She's really gotten us to eat our greens, and she's introduced us to a lot of organic produce, and things we would have never tried," she replied.
Lessons of culinary love that you too can cook up to feed your body and help protect Mother Earth.
"So to eat it fresh, it's a whole new experience and it's beautiful," said White.
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