Samantha Carrie Johnson, at age 30, has already accomplished several lifetimes worth of personal and social achievement. A chef, restauranteur, entrepreneur, actor, model, Miss Pennsylvania 2007, and MTV reality show star, Samantha devotes her energy and her time to raising consciousness, promoting plant-based health, and keeping her own life balanced.
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Today, something a little different. To mark the publication of Proteinaholic, which I worked on with Garth Davis, MD, I wanted to talk about, well, Proteinaholic.
So since it’s my show, I grabbed the microphone – and stared at my mixer for about 20 minutes. Then I asked my wife, Mia, to come into the studio and help me.
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I recently republished an August 2007 interview with Amie Hamlin, Executive Director of The New York Coalition for Healthy School Food. In that conversation, we covered:
what school cafeterias and lunchrooms really look like
the insane scheduling of school lunch times
what cafeteria acoustics have to do with feeding kids well
why the government is poisoning our kids
how surplus agricultural products like ground beef, cheese, and white potatoes get funneled into school cafeterias
the economic pressures on school food service directors
how to advocate and agitate for healthy food in schools
the amazing public school food policy in Appleton, Wisconsin – and its surprising origins as an intervention for troubled teens
what hope lies on the horizon
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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Robert Ostfeld was collecting Ivy League degrees like some people collect state quarters. With a BA from Penn, an MD from Yale, and a Masters in Epidemiology from Harvard, Robert was well on the way to a prestigious and lucrative career at the pinnacle of conventional medicine.
But he threw that plan away when he decided to become amazing.
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Nelson Campbell is the eldest son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, co-author of The China Study, and author of Whole, and The Low Carb Fraud. (I helped with those last two.) For the past two years, Nelson has been quietly working on a remarkable project with the potential to change everything for the better.
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Today’s podcast is the first half of a double-header with Amie Hamlin, founder and executive director of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food.
Amie was a concerned parent who got involved at her own kids’ school after seeing the crap they were being served in the cafeteria. What she discovered when she hit hurdle after hurdle led her to full-time, full-court activism on behalf of children’s health.
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Ben Chesler was finding – and fixing – broken food systems before he even got to college. As a freshman, Ben cofounded the Food Recovery Network, a non-profit that feeds the hungry with excess food from college dining halls. Now with chapters in over 100 colleges nationwide, it’s donated over 700,000 pounds of perfectly good food that would otherwise have gone to waste.
Now Ben’s at it again. The Brown University senior has cofounded Imperfect, a company dedicated to fixing another broken part of our food system.
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Heather Jo Flores came of age in an “addicted, abusive, and estranged family” in the slums of Los Angeles in the 1980s.
An unlikely leader of the modern environmental movement (a label that is far too small for Heather, as you’ll see), she moved from radical activism to community building to connection making to her current project, replacing most of the world’s suburban lawns with thriving gardens and food forests.
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Alan Muskat has shown some pretty famous people how to feed themselves off the ground.
As founder of the No Taste Like Home foraged food and event company, Alan has shared his “off the eaten track” (his pun, not mine) self-catering skills with such food luminaries as Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods, Andrew Weil, and The James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour. He’s also been featured by The History Channel, PBS, Southern Living, and Travel and Leisure.
He’s also author of the book Wild Mushrooms: A Taste of Enchantment.
Alan’s got a unique outlook on food: we should abandon mass agriculture and return to the food we were meant to eat: the stuff that grows all around, totally without our help.
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