Passion on display at Valley Foods

On Tuesdays and Thursdays shoppers at Valley Foods will get to see, taste, smell and buy meals cooked by Chef Eugene Api.

Shoppers at the store in the morning will smell the aroma of food as Api prepares his featured meal of the day. On Friday, that meal was chili served over jasmine rice, with steamed vegetables on the side.

On display next to his finished product are recipes created by Api using ingredients that can be found in the store.

Cooking fascinated Api when he was young and he started satisfying that curiosity when he was four or five, tasting his mom’s meals as she cooked. That cur...