FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Who: Cooking Channel Celebrity Chef and “Spice Goddess” Bal Arneson

What: Cooking demonstration of a healthy and enticing meal for residents of Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay retirement community

When and Where? Friday July 25, 2014 from 11 a.m. -1 p.m.; Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, 3100 Shore Drive, VA Beach

Best selling author and chef Bal Arneson, known as the “Spice Goddess” on her Cooking Channel television series, will share her culinary talents with residents and staff of Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay on Friday July 25.

Arneson will conduct a cooking demonstration, preparing her signature Salmon with Spiced Coconut Sauce as well as a special turnover. Westminster-Canterbury’s culinary staff will then serve those dishes as well as several other of Arneson’s creations during lunch, including her No Butter Chicken, Indian Pizza, Lentil Soup, Green Beans and Potato Curry, Brown Rice with Edamane, Lentil Cookies and Chai Tea.

“Chef Peter Tseng and our entire culinary staff do an amazing job preparing popular meals on a daily basis that have great taste and variety,” says Senior Director of Hospitality Services John Matis. “So having someone as talented as Bal Arneson come here is just one more treat.”

At the age of seven, Arneson, who today lives in British Columbia, learned how to cook from her elders over coals in a small clay pit. In July of 2010 her cooking series, “Spice Goddess,” premiered on the Cooking Channel in the United States. Her first cookbook, Everyday Indian, was a best seller, and her second, “Bal’s Quick and Healthy Indian,” released in 2010, was a best seller too. In 2011 she was a judge on the TV series Iron Chef America.

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