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PYP 140: Chef AJ on the Ultimate Weight Loss Challenge

Chef AJ is a funny, ferocious, blunt, and incredibly warm and supportive leader in the plant-based movement. It’s always a treat to talk with her, and this podcast gives me a good excuse to do so at least a couple times a year.

This interview was inspired by her talk at the Raleigh NC Vegfest in the fall, on weight loss. Her approach is as easy to understand as it is simple to implement. And it appeals to my wholistic brain, since it involves no counting, weighing, measuring, or proportioning. Just eat foods to the left of the red line, as much as you want, whenever you want, until comfortably full.

To me, this ease about food is the ultimate benefit. Freedom from obsession, from the need to keep your food scale close, and from the inherent distrust most of us have developed about our bodies and our urges.

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PYP 133: Kathy Hester on Beans, Oats, Slow Cookers, and Just Having Fun

Kathy Hester is the author of five vegan cookbooks (more if you count the Halloween ebook), including the new Easy Vegan Cookbook: Make Home Healthy Cooking Practically Effortless and OATrageous Oatmeals: Delicious & Surprising Plant-Based Dishes From This Humble, Heart-Healthy Grain.

I discovered to my delight that she’s also a neighbor, and now, after a lunch date, an interview, and a family dinner gathering to which she brought an amazing dessert, she’s become a friend.

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PYP 126: Jill McKeever on Cooking Speedy-Healthy-Delicious

Jill McKeever is not an introvert, I suspect. I began to form this suspicion when we started our video Skype conversation and I noticed she was wearing fuzzy bunny ears.

Plus she hollers “Woot Woot” every time she speaks or hears the words “Instant Pot.”

Good thing Jill is preaching the message of healthy cooking and delicious eating!

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PYP 121: Dr. Ron Weiss on the Healing Power of Farming

After 7 years in the emergency room and 15 years running a traditional medical clinic in suburban New Jersey, Dr. Ronald Weiss decided to radically change his practice.

He moved to a centuries-old working farm in rural New Jersey and began treating his patients with fresh, organic, sustainably grown produce.

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PYP 114: Miyoko Schinner on Homemade Liberation

If there were a Nobel Prize for food, Miyoko Schinner would be rehearsing her Oslo speech right now. Committed to human health and happiness, environmental stewardship, and animal welfare, her activism tends toward the decidedly delicious.

She’s a return guest, having shared her cheesemaking secrets with the podcast a couple of years ago.

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PYP 110: Dreena Burton on Feeding the Plant Powered Family

Dreena Burton has taught an entire generation how to cook delicious, innovative, and down-home vegan meals. In her fifth cookbook, Plant Powered Families, she combines delicious, accessible, and kid-friendly to create one of the books you will never lend to anyone, ever.

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PYP 108: Del Sroufe on the Joys of Planning Meals

Chef Del Sroufe is a master of efficiency, which is a good thing. As co-owner and head chef at Wellness Forum Foods, Del feeds a crazy amount of people every week. If he didn’t have his act together, his business would be a hot mess of chaos and waste.

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Date Bars from the PlantPure Nation Cookbook

I like to bring whole food, plant-based refreshments when I give local talks. I typically just lay them out and don’t highlight the fact that they don’t have added sugar, or eggs, or dairy, or bacon, or whatever else the young people are putting into their treats these days. At the end of the talk,…

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PYP 107: Annie Oliverio on the Dance of Cravings, Denial, and Pleasure

Annie Oliverio’s mind works differently from most people’s. When she sat down to write a cookbook, she didn’t come up with chapter headings like Breakfasts, Lunches, Snacks, Soups, Desserts, and so on.

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PYP 106: Corey Rennell on Food as the Foundation of a New Economy

Corey Rennell doesn’t do things halfway.

After discovering that what passes for convention wisdom on the topic of nutrition is a contradictory, confusing, reductionist mess, he stopped listening and started looking for himself.

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