[4] Under the stage name MC Mystic, Mooking spent the early 1990s as a member of the Edmonton-based hip hop band The Maximum Definitive, who received a Juno Award nomination in 1993 for their single "Jungle Man".

[6] The band then moved to Toronto to continue their musical careers, but broke up due to creative differences before they could actually complete recording a full album, and Mooking went on to join the soul/R&B trio Bass Is Base.

[11][12] Mooking studied culinary arts at George Brown College, and still continues to operate as the chair of the professional advisory committee.

[3] Mooking worked at Toronto's Royal York Hotel before co-owning and consulting on many food and beverage operations in Ontario.

The book explains how to add unconventional ingredients to traditional dishes to experience the flavors developed by cultures from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

[2] In 2011, Mooking partnered up with World Vision Canada and made a trip to Cambodia to exchange information and ideas about child nutrition, and to bring awareness to the issues of healthy food and clean water for families in all countries.

[19] In fall 2012, Mooking traveled to Bangladesh to visit nutrition-related programming run by Save the Children and to meet with community groups, medical clinics, and local families and explore ways to create sustainable health and nutrition programs so that successful concepts can be applied worldwide.