Primary Food
44 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPRIMARY FOOD is an exploration into all the things in life that nourish our minds, bodies and souls—all the fun stuff that guides us towards the quality of the food we eat. Hosted by Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, who is currently undergoing aggressive cancer treatment and seeking the finest, and funnest, things in life.
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Episode 44: KINTSUGI
November 14, 2019 17:33 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBJoin Primary Food’s host DJ CherishTheLuv and guests, Maharlika and Jeepney's Nicole Ponseca, and Licensed Clinical Psychologist Jeannie Celestial to discuss work, life and surviving trauma. Dr. Celestial helps us unpack it all to get us on that healing track. Primary Food is powered by Simplecast.
Episode 43: GIRL, UBE KILLIN’ IT
October 29, 2019 14:39 - 1 hour - 69 MBJoin Primary Food’s host DJ CherishTheLuv and guests, Maharlika and Jeepney's Nicole Ponseca, Cafe 86’s Ginger Lim Dimapasok, and media maven Charmaine Parcero for Filipino American History Month. They’ll discuss the non-edible things in life that nourish them, as well as share stories about their Filipina-American experience. Join Heritage Radio Network on Monday, November 11th, for a raucous feast to toast a decade of food radio. Our tenth anniversary bacchanal is a rare gathering of your...
Episode 42: ART & MUSIC & WHY
April 20, 2017 22:55 - 53 minutes - 49 MBVisual Artist Tim Okamura and Audio/Visual Artist Cecilie Beck join DJ CherishTheLuv on today's episode of Primary Food. Today, we are talking about ART & MUSIC as our primary food and WHY it is SO important, necessary and healthy to have personal creative expression in our lives. We discuss why we make our art and who we nourish with it. Music provided by and performed by Cecilie Beck!
Episode 41: How to Cook Up A Song
April 13, 2017 22:54 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBBig News! DJ CherishTheLuv will be doing music work in an orphanage in Ecuador with Unfucktheworld in May, so in today’s episode, we’ll be talking about MUSIC as our Primary Food. We are going to find out HOW TO COOK UP A SONG and ENJOY LIFE with today’s musical guests, Haitian-born SMAX MUSIC, your new favorite Caribbean Rock/Groove and Acoustic Soul Man! He’s described as Bob Marley meets The Rolling Stones. Joining us is Doug Hinrichs, a percussionist and composer based in New York City, ...
Episode 40: Giving Back is Nourishing
April 06, 2017 22:45 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBIn today's episode of Primary Food, DJ CherishTheLuv talks about how giving back is a wonderful form of nourishment with Rebecca Weiss. Rebecca is a 46-year-old breast cancer survivor whose life changed completely when she was diagnosed as stage 3 in 2014. A journalist and corporate communications professional, in 2015 she started Bob’s Boxes, a 501c3 nonprofit that sends post-mastectomy care packages to women with breast cancer. Rebecca has appeared on the Today Show, was featured in Parent...
Episode 39: LIVE BREW COFFEE
February 23, 2017 23:46 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBJoining DJ CherishTheLuv in the studio today is the one and only Elisabeth Cardiello founder of Caffe Unimatic with roots from Italy! In Sweden another coffee-loving nation the act of sitting for a coffee break solo or with friends is called a "fika," a primary food action that most people don't realize they get to enjoy often! In this part of the world we don't really have a world for this. Today Elisabeth and Cynthia Cherish come up with a word brew some Unimatic handcrafted coffee on air ...
Episode 38: HOW DID YOU GET HERE
February 16, 2017 23:45 - 54 minutes - 50 MBHRN’s very own Jennifer Leuzzi, host of Tech Bites, joins Rev & DJ CherishTheLuv in today's episode of Primary Food. Focusing on a great job as our primary food theme, we discuss Cynthia’s search for work that nourishes her soul, and the wild journey of a woman in a world full of judgment, sexism, and photoshop. This follow-up to Episode 36 with Libby Moore, Oprah Winfrey’s Chief-of-Staff, continues to bring light to the importance of listening to one’s self and not being afraid to change ca...
Episode 37: Breaking Bread NYC
February 09, 2017 23:45 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBToday's episode of Primary Food combines secondary AND primary food with the themes of exploration, compassion and politics. Breaking Bread NYC's Scott Wiener, Steph Mantis and Jeff Orlick tell us about how they are bringing back humanity to NYC restaurants affected by President Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban. We're here to invite you explore new delicious foods, and inspire other cities to do the same! RESIST! It is Delicious!
Episode 36: HOW TO FEED A WOMAN
February 02, 2017 23:57 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBLibby Moore, Oprah Winfrey's former Chief-of-Staff joins Rev. & DJ CherishTheLuv on today's episode of Primary Food to discuss how women can and should nourish themselves on every level. A sherpa to many, super-connector, and adventurer, Libby Moore, has set off on her own quest to feed herself mentally, spiritually, physically and more, launching her "Libby Moore Gypsy Tour," an inspiring move to find her highest self and best life, with a side of inspiring others to do the same. Listen to ...
Episode 35: Nourish the World with Creativity
January 26, 2017 23:49 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBJoining DJ CherishTheLuv in today's episode is activist and performance artist Robert Galinsky. We are discussing how performance, creativity, coaching, and coffee nourishes the world! Galinsky is a contributing writer to The Fresh Toast, is Head Speaker Coach for TEDxTeen, TEDxFultonStreet, and teaches writing and performance at Rikers Island Jail, through the non-profit Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and GalinskyCoaching.com. His work as an artist activist has been featured in The New Yor...
Episode 34: MUSIC FEEDS NYC
January 19, 2017 23:50 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBJoining Cynthia Cherish in the studio is Dan FreeMan (C0m1x), a bassist/producer and one of the world's experts on Ableton Live and its uses in live performance. As a bassist he has performed and toured extensively on 3 continents. He has a studio in Brooklyn where he primarily produces NYC electro house/disco and records bass for other DJ/producers. He also teaches electronic music production at NYU's Clive Davis Institute and travels around the world giving courses in Ableton Live. A Harva...
Episode 33: Getting Crystal Clear on Creativity
January 12, 2017 23:45 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBYou just never know how Music and The Arts will affect your life and fill it with all kinds of adventures! DJ CherishTheLuv brings her musical sister, DJ CrystalClear, aka Crystal Durant, into the studio to talk about how performing feeds our soul. Featuring soul and funk music from Ubiquity Records, Psyche of Sound, and The London Project.
Episode 32: CREATIVE WRITING AS NOURISHMENT
December 15, 2016 23:49 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBMemorial Sloan Kettering's Creative Writing Program, Visible Ink, has been an important Primary Food for Cynthia Cherish Malaran. Today, we have the Visible Ink Team in the studio to tell us all about the importance of creative writing as a source of nourishment and healing.
Episode 31: MUSIC FEEDS THE SOUL
December 08, 2016 23:45 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBMusic is a source of nourishment for many people around the globe. On today's episode, Cynthia DJ CherishTheLuv spins some funky soul grooves from Ubiquity Records alongside musician Carrie Beehan, and tells stories about music and how it has nourished her.
Episode 30: Servana Care: Chefs Helping You Recover
November 17, 2016 23:43 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBFor over two decades, Chef Jonathan Forgash provided catering for the biggest names in fashion, television and film. When an executive producer fell ill, he reached out to Jonathan for help during recovery. It was a life changing experience. His new company, Servana Care, provides in-home chef services to individuals and families coping with pregnancy, illness and recovery.
Episode 29: SOCIAL MEDIA MASTERS
October 27, 2016 22:51 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBYouTube Sensation, Laura Vitale, lets our host, Cynthia Cherish, and co-hosts singer Carrie Beehan, Chef Airis Johnson, and Kiesha Dutes, as well as callers pick her brain on how she built a successful culinary brand using social media by cooking and sticking to her passions. With 2.6 million subscribers and 360 million views under her belt since her first video in 2010, she's got LOTS to teach us newbies! We're going to figure something out today!
Episode 28: Gin, Dads, and the Making of Music
October 20, 2016 22:12 - 39 minutes - 36 MBNew Zealandesque New York singer/songwriter, Carrie Beehan, and her father (in the form of a bottle of gin) join Cynthia Cherish Malaran in the studio today to discuss how food, drink and family inform the music you create and thus, feed into the world. We will discuss the process of creating Carrie's new album, entitled "Alazon In the Quiet Room” which is available now on iTunes, and is receiving critical praise in a growing number of music publications online.
Episode 27: FEEDING CREATIVITY
October 13, 2016 22:49 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBLatresa Baker, Actress, Writer, Director, Producer and Model joins Cynthia Cherish Malaran in the studio to talk about food's role in creativity and being onscreen. Most known for creating Ms. Monologue and the Pounds New York web series, Latresa's free spirit and go-getter mentality journeyed her from Harrisburg PA, to New York City where she is blazing her own trail as a Creative Entrepreneur on a mission to inspire and empower women through her art. She enjoys serving her community as mem...
Episode 26: Chocolate Ink
September 22, 2016 22:06 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBOceana's Executive Pastry Chef, Colleen Grapes, Foodtographer, Nicole Horton and Ryann Mead of Fine & Raw Chocolate Factory, talk with Cynthia about the love of chocolate, sweets, fun times in the kitchen, tools, tattoos, what it was like to cook for SHARE Cancer Support's A Second Helping Of Life, and so much more! This is one awesome Food & Music pairing!
Episode 25: A Second Helping Of Life
September 15, 2016 22:10 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBWomen Power and Fooding for a Cause is our topic today as Cynthia is joined by Angie Mar, Executive Chef at Beatrice Inn, in the West Village, and Beth Cling, Director of Communications for SHARE. SHARE is a nonprofit organization that helps women facing ovarian and breast cancers. We will be discussing A Second Helping of Life, a food event on Monday, September 19, 6:00-9:30pm, where 26 women chefs, with the aid of celebrity sous chefs (women personalities from media, entertainment, and pu...
Episode 24: Salty Filmmaking and Food City
August 11, 2016 21:56 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBIn a perfect combination of secondary food and creative primary food, Chef Sarah Thompson, Saltmonger, and Chef from Extra Fancy in WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC, and Danish-born FIlmmaker Lars Fuchs come onto this episode to talk about failures, successes, food and filmmaking.
Episode 23: From Sea to Shining Sea
August 04, 2016 21:34 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBSeafood Master and then some, Chef Aaron Bashy, Executive Chef of Maloney & Porcelli, talks about creativity inspired by the ocean, the Greenmarket, the CIA, food real estate, and life at Le Bernardin, the Water Club, The Minnow and more.
Episode 22: Food and Creativity
July 28, 2016 21:55 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBContinuing on the topic of Food and Music pairing, today's episode of Primary Food features super creative, food-loving, musician/songwriter and artist guests, Joanie Leeds, from NYC, and Rohitash Rao from L.A.! We will share stories about how food inspires and informs our creativity. We will also discuss some wonderful points on creativity and cooking, from Chef Eric Ripert's new book, 32 Yolks.
Episode 21: Food and Music Pairings
June 30, 2016 23:53 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBAs a DJ, it dawned on me recently that there was a reason why I like to play music while I eat food and prep food. Music makes everything about life taste better! Okay, the RIGHT music, that is. In this episode, musician Isaac Raz, Founder and President of Whole Music LLC, discusses why food and music go hand in hand in this thing called life.
Episode 20: Whole Food & Whole Health
June 23, 2016 22:32 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBAnnalissa Vicencio, Music Therapist-Board Certified, Holistic Health Coach, Recovery and Eating Psychology Coach, talks whole foods and whole health with Cynthia Cherish Malaran. What does it mean to be whole? How do we become whole? How does music and creativity play a role in our holistic health? What is a whole food, what isn't, and why? We talk about the power of whole, real food in recovering from depression, compulsive eating and misery in life. Fake fruits, fake foods, we get real wit...
Episode 19: Cooking with Granny
June 09, 2016 22:11 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBCaroline Shin, journalist, creator and host of the documentary web series "Cooking With Granny" featuring Grandmas' recipes served with a side of juicy stories. Check out each episode loaded with family recipes and authentic stories from 9 grandmas across cultures in NY. Enjoy the multiculturalism, honoring of family, tradition, women, heritage, and laugh about lady body parts being on fire. https://www.youtube.com/user/feedmegranny Facebook.com/CookingWithGranny Twitter @CookingWGranny ...
Episode 18: WE CAN BE HEROES
June 02, 2016 23:01 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBMarvel Comics writer, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Editor-in-chief and partner with Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels at Darryl Makes Comics joins us in the studio today with his wife and son Kyung and Ennio. Edgardo has just launched his new super heroine, LA BORINQUEÑA, the world's first Afroboricua Superhero. Kyung and Edgardo are incredible storytellers and artists and we are going to talk about making a food superhero... or even a cancer fighting one!
Episode 17: Better Public Speaking & Food Activism
May 26, 2016 21:57 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBAudrey Mann Cronin, the president of Mann Cronin PR joins us today. She is a communications consultant in consumer technology, a speaker and blogger for Our Digital Daughters where she explores the communications and social issues of growing up in our digital world. Audrey is founder of Say It Media, Inc., and the creator of LikeSo, a mobile app that acts as your personal speech coach. And, most importantly, the mom of two amazing teenagers:-). Joining Audrey is her daughter, Amanda, young ...
Episode 16: The Veganizer, Kiki Adami
May 19, 2016 22:08 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBKiki Adami talks about her experience as a 12-year-old vegetarian, discovering veganism in college, turning a meat eater's paradise into a vegan restaurant, and becoming the veganizer. "Any restaurant that does not offer vegan or vegetarian options is burning money. Everyone knows that the vegan chooses where the group eats." - Dawn Sweeney, President National Restaurant Association.
Episode 15: Hungry for Life
May 13, 2016 00:04 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBContinuing on last week's episode of Primary Food, entitled "Really Enjoy Your Food," Life Coach, with a focus on eating psychology, Susan Hannigan, comes in to Heritage Radio Network to discuss her views on food choices, health, happiness and the rights and wrongs of dieting. Can you really enjoy food if you're constantly dieting? We discuss dieting vs. simply focusing on getting highest quality food, having pleasure about it and loving your body as it is vs. the mindset of "when I achieve ...
Episode 14: Really Enjoy Your Food
May 05, 2016 22:51 - 41 minutes - 38 MBCan you really enjoy food if you're constantly dieting? We discuss dieting vs. simply focusing on getting highest quality food, having pleasure about it and loving your body as it is vs. the mindset of "when I achieve the perfect body, then I will be lovable."
Episode 13: Ice Cream Lovers Unite!
April 28, 2016 23:11 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBI scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Join us for a World Tour Taste Test and get to know ice cream made with cacao and vanilla grown in exotic rainforests around the world. Choctál’s eight origins come from places like Costa Rica, Indonesia, Ghana and Papua New Guinea. Each origin tastes significantly different than the next. Choctál is a single-origin ultra premium ice cream company that produces four varieties of chocolate and four varieties of vanilla and is known for being ...
Episode 12: When Healthy Women Get Cancer
April 21, 2016 22:48 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBI was a vegan, and a health coach when I developed my cancer. It happens. But, why? Fellow health coach, Christine Walsh Egan, Hay House author of The Healthy Girl’s Guide to Breast Cancer, comes in to talk about her “unthinkable one-year journey,” something I, and too many, can relate to. Cancer stories usually start with some kind of struggle or fight. This story starts with a song. “You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? You may say to yourself, my God, what have I done?” These w...
Episode 11: BADASS PIZZA WOMEN
April 14, 2016 22:45 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBEmily Hyland, of Brooklyn’s Pizza Loves Emily, and soon-to-open Detroit-Style pizza hotspot, Emmy Squared, brings in her crew of awesome women to discuss the importance of primary food in their pizza making lives. How does yoga, music, and playing with babies make for a happy and successful pizza business? Tune in and find out! Listen along for a fun and loving glimpse into sisterhood, motherhood, pizzahood, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guests on the...
Episode 10: BIRD GARCIA, SKA & JAMBALAYA
April 07, 2016 22:25 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBDon’t go to culinary school until you have listened to this episode! New Orleans gem, Chef Bird Garcia from Jalopy Tavern in Red Hook, Brooklyn, comes in to talk about his life in food and music, and what it’s REALLY like to start from the bottom as a dishwasher to become a veteran chef. We discuss garlic’s role in a crawfish boil and how to do it right, Bird’s horror stories of food terrorism and real kitchen nightmares when a pizza oven breaks down. For an added bonus, get the feels when y...
Episode 9: Food for the Ears
March 17, 2016 22:25 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBDid you ever think of different genres of music being like different plates/styles/flavors of food? Brooklyn Bowl’s very own Rock and Roll Playhouse are here talking about how not only is the food we eat nourishing for our lives, but so is the music we play and listen to. Listen along for an ukulele serenade and hear discussions about the love of music as nourishment, the effect on music on children, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guests on the mic: • ...
Episode 8: AIRIS THE CHEF COOKS!
March 03, 2016 23:59 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBNew Orleans is in the house! Chef Airis Johnson has just developed her own line of spice blends, influenced by her Louisiana tastebuds and working for greats like Danny Meyer (Shake Shack), Gordon Ramsay (Gordon Ramsay at the London, NYC), Sue Torres (Suenos) and Whole Foods Market, to name a few. Building your own business and being your own boss is some great primary food when you’re doing it with love, fun, and are full of passion like Chef Airis is. Listen along to stories from Chef Air...
Episode 7: Beatboxing and Poetry for Nourishment
February 18, 2016 23:43 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBIt is so frustrating when you’re not being heard and you can’t express yourself freely. Allowing yourself to flow with your words is hugely nourishing and healing for all. This is so important to our health and understanding of one another’s experiences. Today’s episode of Primary Food has a lineup of freestyle rappers, poets, and even SURPRISE poets – people we didn’t even know had serious secret rhyming skills hidden and buried within them (listen and find out who at HRN!). We will be vent...
Episode 6: Better Than Tinder
February 04, 2016 23:28 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBMatchmaker, matchmaker make me a match… Well, the previous episode of Primary Food was about weddings and ceremonies, but how do you even get to the wedding stage without a great relationship going? That’s why we’ve got on the mic Professional Matchmaker and Relationship Expert, Gabi Lovve, discussing it all, from sexual compatibility, to alpha males, strong femmes and queens, mind mastering, card readings, and more. Chiming in about relationships and getting insight of her own is Primary Fo...
Episode 5: CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!
January 28, 2016 23:36 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBHow do you choose a wedding officiant? How do you commemorate life’s other momentous events? Baby namings, pet losses, even honor a divorce for closure you might needing? How do you memorialize people who have shaped you? Draw support from those you hold dear? Today, we are three ordained ministers, RevLuv and two wonderful guests from the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, sharing stories about the art, magic, power and beauty of rituals and ceremonies in our lives… and why we need more. Lis...
Episode 4: BREASTS AND LADY PARTS. YEAH WE SAID IT.
January 15, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBListen along to a reading of “To Boob or Not To Boob” from Cynthia’s “The Cancer Diaries,” conversations about reconnecting with yourself for free, emotional eating, generational trauma, healing, movement, play Integrative Nutrition, and more, with guests on the mic: • Tim Haft, Personal Trainer and founder of Punk Rope, Beastanetics, and Great Riddance • Susan Hannigan, Eating Psychology Coach • Lanai Daniels, Core Organizer, Yeah, That’s What She Said and Core Sister, Sister Circle Coll...
Episode 3: Self Care for the Self Aware
January 07, 2016 23:45 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBListen along to conversations about reconnecting with yourself for free, emotional eating, generational trauma, healing, movement, play Integrative Nutrition, and more, with guests on the mic: • Tim Haft, Personal Trainer and founder of Punk Rope, Beastanetics, and Great Riddance • Susan Hannigan, Eating Psychology Coach • Lanai Daniels, Core Organizer, Yeah, That’s What She Said and Core Sister, Sister Circle Collective Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer...
Episode 2: Creative Freedom, Musical Instruments & Burgers
November 20, 2015 00:54 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBListen along to today’s episode of _ Primary Food _ covering creative freedom, musical instruments, burgers, Integrative Nutrition, and more: Food review of VBurger, a compassionate, new, vegan burger joint in Union Square NYC New Music by DJ CherishTheLuv A Reading From The Cancer Diaries: Creative Cancer Music Experience with Scandinavia’s The Thing Get DJ CherishTheLuv’s attention on social media using @djcherishtheluv @heritage_radio and #primaryfood #revluv Cynthia Cherish Malaran...
Episode 1: Primary Food Debuts!
October 26, 2015 14:21 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBCynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this pilot episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the grea...