Nutrition

Ella's Kitchen & Cafe is my pride and joy. Ella Murphy Wald was my Irish-Latina grandmother and she raised my sister Marlynn and I through our childhood years.

During those years she taught us and demonstrated daily cooking natural foods from scratch. We drank whole, possibly unpasteurized and  non-homogenized milk (she shook the milk before pouring to mix the cream at the top into the milk), we ate all kinds of vegetables from rutabagas to eggplant, we ate soups in mineral-rich homemade bone broth, cereals made from whole grains soaked over-night and cooked fresh that morning, and meats purchased fresh from the butcher that day and prepared for dinner that evening. Gramma even made hot cocoa from scratch using whole milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

Sissy and I didn't know any different and we thrived rosy-cheeked and robust under Gramma's care. Except for the chicken-pox, the mumps, and a stomach flu, I don't remember ever being sick with colds, chronic ear infections, allergies or any of the ailments children suffer with today. I thank God for providing Gramma to raise us. She is my earliest and best inspiration for why I do what I do today.