Interview with Blanca Valencia

Fiona Staunton • January 20, 2020

Check out this video for lots of tips on olive oils, pulses and pressure cookers

In this series, at Fiona's food for life I interview people all over Ireland that work with food. I gain an insight into their work and get their 3 tips we can all implement to live a healthier life.

In this video, I am interviewing Blanca Valencia, Spanish Food Expert, I really enjoyed this chat with Blanca talking about simple clean food.

Her top 3 tips are
1. Cook pulses weekly and develop recipes around them
2. Get an organic box and learn to deal with seasonal produce
3. Get a pressure cooker or Instant Pot to speed up cooking
Check out the interview for a more in-depth discussion!

Some other highlights are

1.38 cooking chickpeas
2.39 Cooking Schools
5.53 Olive oils
8.33 Olive oil Sommelier
12.30 Pressure Cookers
14.52 Butterbeans with clams
16.05 Vietnamese Chicken
18.04 Savoy Cabbage


Blanca can be contacted https://www.blancavalencia.com/

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