When you travel with us, you will LIVE the local culture as we experience the food, wine, and local customs, as well as showing you adventures that involve trekking and other cool adventures, with a sustainable edge.

-We’ll travel close to home and abroad
-We’ll stay at Green Lodges
-We’ll also look at community involvement, such as resorts in Napa and Puerto Rico that are committed to educating their employees as well as the locals
-We’ll talk to people who are doing great ECO things in the local region
-We’ll find out how we, as travelers can help reduce our carbon footprint in the places that we travel to!

The Grill at Silverado Resort

Chef Peter Pahk

Poke of tuna, crispy wonton chips

With a Grape Seed Oil Herb Salad

Number of Servings: Four
Ingredients:
12 oz. Sushi Grade Tuna, diced ½”
(*Marinade for Tuna)
½ cup Ko-Choo-Jung
1/8 cup Dijon Mustard
1 tsp. Roasted Sesame Seeds, pulverized
1 tsp Roasted Sesame Oil
2 oz. Red Wine Vinegar
2 tbsp Minced Scallions
½ cup Organic Micro Green
Wonton Skins, cut into quarters, fried and seasoned

Dressing for Greens:
1 ½ cups Grape Seed Oil
1 cup Rice Wine vinegar
2 Shallots, minced
Cloves of Garlic, minced
2 tbsp ea. Chopped Parsley, Chives, & Chervil
3 tbsp Dijon Mustard
S&P to taste

Preparation:
Whisk all ingredients together except oil. Slowly drizzle in oil until an emulsion is formed. Season.

Mix Tuna with marinade and check for
seasoning. Toss Micro Greens with Dressing. Assemble 5 quarters of Wonton on 10” plate. Make a 2 oz. Quenelle and place on Wonton. Garnish with Grape Seed Oil and Herb Salad.
Pair with 2007 Benessere Pinot Grigio

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Chef Peter Pahk is an Award-Winning Executive Chef with over twenty years of experience in the food service industry for world class resort hotels and five-star restaurants. Chef Pahk began his career in his homeland of Hawaii in Waikiki. Trained in French Cuisine, he worked in many local restaurants where he added seafood and Continental cuisine to his repertoire, then went on to receive his formal education at Syracuse University, and at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Creative and inventive, his eclectic style is featured today at Napa Valley’s Silverado Resort and Country Club as the Executive Chef, since 1997.

Chef Pahk is one of the leaders in the sustainable cuisine community and is helping to promote healthy eating and the protection of the environment. This blend of delicious and healthy food with the health of our planet is what makes Chef Pahk so progressive, unique, and knowledgeable in the culinary world.
 

We’ll journey around the world to beautiful destinations with our host as our experienced guide. Our shows will feature food made fresh from the land, chefs and restaurants cooking up creative dishes with sustainable ingredients, we’ll highlight what companies, people, and communities are doing in the area to help sustain the environment, talk to people who have unique ECO FRIENDLY innovations, and we’ll visit incredible places and show you the beauty of clean skies, spectacular mountains, sparkling lakes, emerald pastures--anywhere the vitality of healthy living inspires us to go

On our way, we’ll find adventure, fun, great places to stay, cool things to see, delicious food, and great people!
 

ECO-FRIENDLY Spas continue to lead the innovation in skincare technology and programs that address the reality that beauty is more than skin deep. We’ll visit Spas that focus on one's overall beauty regimens, which include anti-aging foods as well as natural and organic products. Eco-friendly rejuvenation is the theme at these healing retreat centers that pledge themselves not only to ecologically sensitive business practices, but also to educating the spa industry and their clients about its impact on the earth.
 

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