Deliciousness

PYP 077: Julie Piatt on Influencing Others, Coming Back to Ourselves, and “Meditating on One Foot in the Moonlight”

November 26, 2014

Julie Piatt is a musician, plant-based chef and healer, yogi, home-schooling mom, cookbook author, and contributor to MindBodyGreen.com.

She’s also the muse and support system that her husband Rich Roll leaned on to transform himself from sedentary, junk-food and late-night TV addicted couch potato to one of the world’s fittest men in the span of just a couple of years. (Read his story in his bestselling book, Finding Ultra.)

In some sense, Julie “lived the fantasy”: influencing her spouse to change in a big way.

Don’t most of us have a fantasy like that? If not about our spouse, then about our kids, or co-workers, or boss, or politicians, or customer-service reps on the other end of the phone, or – probably most common – ourselves?

PYP 075: Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn on Healthy Cooking Made Really Easy

November 24, 2014

Mother and daughter Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn are co-authors of the brand spanking new Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook. The recipes are inspired by two things: the nutritional profile of heart-protective foods validated by their husband and father Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and a knack for making healthy food prep as easy and familiar as the Standard Western Diet.

When Dr. Esselstyn began his study of severely ill heart patients, he knew he’d have to start eating the same diet he was mandating for them. And since, in the words of Ann, “he didn’t know how to make toast,” he needed help. Enter Ann.

PYP 069: How to Keep Kids Healthy Even if They’re in Daycare

November 9, 2014

Sparked by a situation in my own family, I devoted this episode to supporting parents who send their kids to daycare and still want to feed them well. I reached out to my network of “Here’s how to do it” genius educators and collated the short interviews into this comprehensive and hopefully valuable resource.

PYP 065: Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz on The Cookbook Project, Starting a Big-Hearted Non-Profit on a Tiny-Ass Budget, and the Problem as the Solution

October 15, 2014

Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz are co-founders of The Cookbook Project, an amazingly inspiring, effective, and elegant not-for-profit dedicated to the fine mostly-lost art of home cooking.

With projects in 35 US states and over 20 countries around the world, Alissa and Adam are empowering communities to reclaim their culinary roots and break free from the industrial food system that creates disease, dependence, and displacement.

PYP 064: Chef Alan Roettinger on Navigating Life Through Joy (and much more)

October 8, 2014

Alan Roettinger packs a ton of wisdom, compassion, and humor into a 102-minute interview – one of the longest and most inspiring I’ve had the privilege to conduct.

Alan shifted his career as private chef to the rich and famous (he doesn’t name names, except for Bill Clinton and Frank Sinatra) to a successful stint as the author of four vegan cookbooks. In this far-ranging conversation.

Food Demo: Quick and Easy Kale Avocado Salad

September 12, 2014

Howard and Yael (but mostly Yael) demonstrate how to make a really quick and easy and deliciously health kale avocado salad.

Food Demo: Creamy Curried Almond Dressing (or Dip)

September 12, 2014

This recipe comes with permission from Dreena Burton’s lovely cookbook, . From Dreena: “This dressing will definitely cling to your greens, and can easily be used as a dip as well. It is one of my favorites, with a very subtle curry flavor in a creamy, slightly sweet base.” When I asked Dreena for dressings…

PYP 049: Jeff Rogers on Vegan Ice Cream, Being a Naughty Vegan, and Discovering the Raw Lifestyle

September 5, 2014

Jeff Rogers, The Naughty Vegan, may have saved my sanity back in the day when I had foresworn Ben and Jerries, but couldn’t stomach the taste or texture or nasty ingredients of then-available non-dairy frozen desserts.

His short book, Vice Cream, offered me (and tens of thousands of others) a simple and elegant way to make high-quality frozen desserts at home. Yeah, they were expensive (a key ingredient was raw cashews). And yeah I ended up buying a separate freezer so I could order the ingredients in bulk and save money.

But they were amazing.

PYP 046: Kelly Coffin on Making Healthy Delicious

September 2, 2014

Kelly Coffin is founder and CEO of Wayfare Foods, a Montana company dedicated to making healthy and animal-free versions of many of our favorite foods, including ice cream, pudding, cheese, sour cream, and even bacon bits.

To drive home the point (and to avoid legal hassles), all their products’ names start with “We Can’t Say It’s…”

PYP 044: Julieanna Hever on Raising Healthy Kids in a Junk-food World

August 31, 2014

Julieanna Hever is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition. She hosts Veria Network’s “What Would Julieanna Do?”, is the nutrition columnist for VegNews.com, and is a frequent guest on The Doctor Oz Show.

PYP 077: Julie Piatt on Influencing Others, Coming Back to Ourselves, and “Meditating on One Foot in the Moonlight”

PYP 075: Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn on Healthy Cooking Made Really Easy

PYP 069: How to Keep Kids Healthy Even if They’re in Daycare

PYP 065: Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz on The Cookbook Project, Starting a Big-Hearted Non-Profit on a Tiny-Ass Budget, and the Problem as the Solution

PYP 064: Chef Alan Roettinger on Navigating Life Through Joy (and much more)

Food Demo: Quick and Easy Kale Avocado Salad

Food Demo: Creamy Curried Almond Dressing (or Dip)

PYP 049: Jeff Rogers on Vegan Ice Cream, Being a Naughty Vegan, and Discovering the Raw Lifestyle

PYP 046: Kelly Coffin on Making Healthy Delicious

PYP 044: Julieanna Hever on Raising Healthy Kids in a Junk-food World

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