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Welcome to the Global Hearth blog. We're here to help you discover the latest and greatest in food and current events. Stay tuned for tips on eating in, find out the new trendy places to eat out, event recaps, important issues within the food community, and much, much more!

Eating in

  • Marbled Tea Eggs and Jane Eyre

    Marbled Tea Eggs and Jane Eyre

    November 28, 2021

    Classics in Any Language Not to be outdone by Dad's new iPad acquisition, Margaret enjoys a new Kindle, loaded with her favorite classics like Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Gone With the Wind. She first read the novels in high...

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  • Black IS the New Green!

    Black IS the New Green!

    November 5, 2021

    Grandma said eating black rice and black sesame made my hair shiny, black and healthy. She fed me black sesame soup (zhima tang), sticky rice balls oozing with sweet black sesame paste (tangyuan) and black sesame candy. Black rice and black sesame has...

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  • Asian Noodles!

    Video Quick Tips: Asian Noodles!

    November 5, 2021

    I love breaking corn bread – or slurping a bowl of pho beef noodle soup—for fun, health and a better world. Here's we go noodle crazy in the oodles of noodles aisle with Quick Tips: Asian Noodles! Unlike Italian wheat...

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Eating out

  • Wilderness Camping & Campfire Cooking!

    Wilderness Camping & Campfire Cooking!

    November 5, 2021

    Wilderness camping in Alaska! We got dropped off by the Alaska State Railroad in the middle of nowhere. All I see is a mile marker 238.6, which I nervously typed in my last text home, in case of a "missing...

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  • Save Buford Highway, Ways to Help: Small Immigrant Businesses, Our Multicultural Fabric

    Save Buford Highway, Ways to Help: Small Immigrant Businesses

    November 5, 2021

    As an Atlanta native, chef instructor and tour guide, Buford Highway as a community is special in my life in more ways than one. We ate there growing up before it was trendy (none of our friends were interested in...

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  • Asian Hot Pots

    Ultimate Comfort Food: Asian Hot Pots

    November 5, 2021

    The Hot Pot, also known as huo guo, Mongolian Hot Pot, Chinese Fondue, or shabu-shabu in Japanese, boasts a history of over 1000 years (!) With a simmering pot of stock in the center of the table and an array...

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Event Recaps

  • natalie keng, cooking class, food tour

    *New* COOKING UP A BETTER WORLD virtual Diversity, Food and Culture series featuring Stir Fried America and Together We Can Dumplings

    November 1, 2022

      Fun, unique, interactive, impactful. VIRTUAL. Great for team-building, diversity, health-wellness, teams, conferences, presentations. Custom themes, standalone or part of a program. Perfect for remote and global teams. Email Natalie to set up a free, custom consultation to help your...

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  • Chinese Southern Belle, LLC Wins Best Cooking Sauce at UGA's 2020 Flavor of Georgia Contest

    Chinese Southern Belle, LLC Wins Best Cooking Sauce at UGA's 2020

    November 5, 2021

    Winner, winner, stir-fry dinner. We are so excited to share that You Saucy Thing - Soy Ginger Vidalia sauce is the winner of the Sauces & Seasonings category of the University of Georgia’s Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest. Narrowed...

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  •  Stir Fry, Asian Dumplings

    NEW Winter Chinese Cooking Classes: Perfect Stir Fry, Asian Dumplings

    November 5, 2021

    NEW Winter Chinese Cooking Classes: Perfect Stir Fry, Asian Dumplings Farm to Wok: The Perfect Stir Fry + Authentic Fried Rice – Home Chef Secrets– from nuts to bolts, or shall we say “from farm to wok!” plus busy cook...

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Food Justice

  •  Junk Foods

    Black, Hispanic Kids Targeted by Ads for Junk Foods

    November 5, 2021

    Black, Hispanic Kids Targeted by Ads for Junk Foods Education, awareness (and exercise) are needed from all sides to address poor eating habits and improve children's health especially in low income communities: parents, kids, schools. Media isn't to blame but...

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  • food justice, choco pie

    Food For Thought: Choco Pie-filled balloons launched at N. Korea

    November 5, 2021

    Food For Thought: Choco-vism? Call it Choco-vism. South Korean activists and North Korean defectors launched balloons laden with Choco Pies at North Korea this week after the popular chocolate treat reportedly became the target of a government crackdown. Nearly 200...

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  • fried fiddler crab

    Food for Thought: You Are What You Eat

    November 5, 2021

    Everything important and memorable in my life has revolved around food. It’s been my enemy, friend, and salvation. From being allergic to almost everything as a baby to becoming a “raccoon foodie” who eats anything as an adult, it’s a...

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Latest News

  • Global Hearth Partnership with Garnish & Gather

    Global Hearth Partnership with Garnish & Gather

    March 8, 2023

    Our "Chief Eating Officer" and Sauce Maven, Natalie Keng, is proud to announce our partnership with Garnish & Gather. Garnish & Gather is locally source meal subscription program founded in the fall of 2012 by Emily Golub out of her desire...

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  • Good Day Atlanta - March 9, 2023 National Meatball Day

    Good Day Atlanta - March 9, 2023 National Meatball Day

    March 6, 2023
    Tune in to FOX 5 Good Day Atlanta on Thursday, March 9, 2023 for a live cooking demonstration with our "Chief Eating Officer" and resident Sauce Maven™, Natalie Keng.
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  • Order Natalie Keng's Lucky Dumpling Kit

    Order Natalie Keng's Lucky Dumpling Kit

    January 21, 2023
    In honor of the Lunar New Year, our CEO (Chief Eating Officer), Natalie Keng partnered with Garnish and Gather for a special Lucky Dumpling Kit available now through the end of January.
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Videos

  • Video Interview: Growing up Asian and Southern, Five Spice Rutabaga

    Video Interview: Growing up Asian and Southern, Five Spice Rutabaga

    November 5, 2021

    My mom invented Chinese fast food long before Panda Express ever came along. She told friends, “I worked full-time as a school teacher, had three kids, and they didn’t sell tofu or soy sauce at the local Winn-Dixie grocery store...

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  • Reflections on Food, Culture, Being American

    Reflections on Food, Culture, Being American

    November 5, 2021

    Good friend and musician Kevin So catches Natalie, Founder/Owner of Chinese Southern Belle, on improv car soapbox sharing thoughts on food, family and community...spontaneous food for thought. https://youtu.be/cSh918c0A3s How do you define being an American? How does food and culture...

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  • Video Interview: Redefining Authenticity, Fusion Food

    Video Interview: Redefining Authenticity, Fusion Food

    November 5, 2021

      Natalie shares about growing up in Smyrna, Georgia and how family dinners and fusion comfort food like "five spice rutabaga" and mom's Hot Hunan Catfish helped her cope with being different and one of the few Asian families in...

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