Women Beyond a Certain Age Podcast
285 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsWomen Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast covering topics of interest to older women. This show is hosted by Denise Vivaldo.
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How Much is Enough? with Claire Berger
July 01, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBClaire Berger wrote “How Much Is Enough? Getting More by Living with Less” as an interactive memoir, to give voice to the ever-present conversation we’re all having in our heads. How Much Is Enough… Exercise? Religion? Health? Shoes? Family? Food? Claire tackles an array of topics in twenty-two chapters that can be adapted into an entertaining, interactive keynote that will engage audiences in every age and stage of life. Check her website for speaking dates in and around Los Angeles in July...
Second Chances with Alison Tucker
June 04, 2024 12:00 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBAlison Tucker started off with a $50 PX store guitar. From there she got kicked out of the Baptist church for drinking, cussing, smoking and dancing. Then she became a grownup for about 20 years (a highly overrated state to be in), married, kids, and working in corporate America. When that life fell apart, Alison realized she needed to become the person she was always meant to be. Alison’s music reflects her magical gift for storytelling and her voracious curiosity about life. Her multiface...
On Aging & Hip Replacements with Pat Greenberg
May 20, 2024 12:00 - 45 minutes - 61.8 MBShow bestie Pat Greenberg is here to have a very direct chat about her recent hip replacement and the surprising things no one every told her to expect. We’re also talking about aging and changes and grace. It’s always a great episode when Pat joins us! PAT’S LINKS: Website Email Pat your questions Buy Pat’s book Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienc...
The Pelican Tide with Sharon Wishnow
May 06, 2024 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MBAuthor Sharon Wishnow is with us to talk about her new novel, The Pelican Tide, and to talk about the writing process. Says she writes “stores about flawed, educated women with plots that have environmental themes, but not dystopian doom. I’m drawn to stores that show how changes in the environment change people.” Sharon is the former Vice President of Communications for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA), the founder of Women’s Fiction Day, and is the Executive Editor of the W...
Stop Fighting Your Brain with Jean Tidd
April 22, 2024 12:00 - 41 minutes - 57.5 MBJean Tidd helps people stop fighting their ADHD brain and, instead, make it their ally. With an unparalleled zest for life, an unbreakable spirit, and a relentless determination that can move mountains, people with ADHD can hyperfocus on their passions and turn themselves into unstoppable forces of nature. Jean helps people channel that electrifying energy, and embrace life with an unapologetic intensity that’s nothing short of extraordinary. Jean’s own ADHD journey led her to become and e...
I Saw Them Standing There with Debbie Gendler
April 09, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBDebbie Gendler Supnik is with us to chat about her new book, I Saw Them Standing There: Adventures of an Original Fan During Beatlemania and Beyond. Debbie received an album by an unknown (in the US) British band named the Beatles and nothing was the same ever again! She said, “Yes!” to the opportunities that presented themselves, ending up in the audience of The Ed Sullivan Show, meeting Brian Epstein, attending the 1965 press conference welcoming the Beatles to America, visiting the Abbey...
Ending Self Sabotage with Stacey DiVerde, Part 2
March 25, 2024 12:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBLife coach and personal chef Stacey DiVerde is back with us for a discussion on how past trauma and disease can keep us from living the life we want. Download Stacey’s “Let’s End Self-Sabotage” workbook for free! Stacey helps transform lives through holistic health, nutrition and comprehensive coaching tools and strategies, empowering individuals to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes for overall wellbeing. Stacey says, “Within all of us, we have courage, our intuition nudging us to try ...
Ending Self-Sabotage with Stacey DiVerde
March 10, 2024 12:00 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBLife coach and personal chef, Stacey Diverde is with us this week to discuss how to stop the victim mindset and how to get out of your own way. Download Stacey’s “Let’s End Self-Sabotage” workbook for free! Stacey helps transform lives through holistic health, nutrition and comprehensive coaching tools and strategies, empowering individuals to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes for overall wellbeing. Stacey says, “Within all of us, we have courage, our intuition nudging us to try someth...
The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews
February 19, 2024 13:00 - 48 minutes - 67.4 MBJoin us for a conversation with Chef Rossi about her memoir, The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews! It's a rollercoaster that whisks you through a world bursting with rich characters, uproarious dialogue, vivid snapshots of the Orthodox community and the gritty, pulsating 1980s New York City scene -- raw, on the edge, but gloriously alive. Rossi was raised in a conservative Jewish family, expected to toe the line, marry right, and play by the kosher rulebook. But at 16, she flipped the script, bl...
Drown or Swim with Anne Coulter
February 05, 2024 08:05 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBDenise chats with her friend from Australia, Anne Coulter, about her remarkable vitality, energy, and zest for life! Denise and Anne met at a memoir writers retreat and hit it off immediately. Anne says she is a mature spontaneous spirit on a life pilgrimage for the joy of the journey. EPISODE LINKS: Alison Waring, Memoir Writing, Ink. Disrupt Aging by Jo Ann Jenkins Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous...
The Complete Recipe Writing Guide with Raeanne Sarazen
January 22, 2024 13:00 - 41 minutes - 58.1 MBRaeanne Sarazen is with us to talk about her incredible new book, The Complete Recipe Writing Guide: Mastering Recipe Development, Writing, Testing, Nutrition Analysis, and Food Styling, a one-stop resource for developing, writing and producing recipes for cookbooks, magazines, online publications, and social media platforms. This is a master class on recipe writing, readers will learn timeless recipe development techniques and best practices for each stage of creating recipe content such as...
Misunderstood Vegetables with Becky Selengut
January 08, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBSeattle-based chef and author Becky Selengut is with us to talk about her newest cookbook, Misunderstood Vegetables: A Culinary Odyssey into the World of Underappreciated Produce. This is not just a cookbook; it's an educational journey. Each section includes history, preparation tips, and storage advice to help home cooks feel comfortable working with these unusual ingredients. It’s also not just for vegetarians or health enthusiasts; it's for anyone looking to expand their culinary horizon...
Aging with Patricia Greenberg
December 08, 2023 13:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBPat Greenberg and Denise chat about what they’ve learned this year and about how they want to age going forward. We are inundated by societal messaging on aging but are those messages really what’s best for us? As always, we tackle the big questions! PAT’S LINKS: Website YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests...
Kneaders Bakery & Cafe with Colleen Worthington
November 27, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBMore than twenty-five years ago, Colleen Worthington rolled up her sleeves and built a baking empire out of her own kitchen, which provided a place for her children and now grandchildren to learn hard work, dedication, and creativity. Together with her husband, Gary, the Worthington pursued their interest in scratch-made artisan breads by training at both the American Institute of Baking and San Francisco Baking Institute. They worked closely with Lehi Mills to develop an exclusive flour mix...
LATINÍSIMO with Sandra Gutierrez
November 13, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBSandra Gutierrez is visiting us once again! Her new cookbook, Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America, is a monumental work with over 300 recipes reflecting the incredible breadth and richness of the culinary traditions of the region. It’s filled with history and stories and is an essential resource for every kitchen. Sandra is a journalist, food writer and historian, professional cooking instructor, and author of four cookbooks. She is an expert on Latin Ame...
Chef Michael Kalanty
October 08, 2023 15:25 - 55 minutes - 74.6 MBChef Michael Kalanty chats with us about the interesting road that led him to a career in baking. From a mathematics major to graduate school in architecture, to writing his thesis on the flying buttress of France’s cathedrals where he couldn’t help but notice the boulangeries next to every cathedral. He was so drawn to them that he apprenticed with a baker he met while there. This episode is worth listening to just for the description of focaccia with olive oil and “little pools of harvest ...
Chef Debbi Dubbs, Part the Second
September 24, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 50.2 MBChef Debbi is back to talk about her farm, food and wine tours! A California native, Chef Debbi has cooked in some of the finest restaurants in Orange County; owned two catering companies, provided personal chef services, and was a corporate chef for Melissa's Produce. The author of What's in Your Pantry and A Little Book of Cheese, Debbi Dubbs has been a culinary instructor for Williams Sonoma, Sur la Table, Bloomingdale's and now owns Deb's Kitchen where she provides private and t...
Chef Debbi Dubbs, Part the First
September 10, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 42.7 MBA California native, Chef Debbi has cooked in some of the finest restaurants in Orange County; owned two catering companies, provided personal chef services, and was a corporate chef for Melissa's Produce. The author of What's in Your Pantry and A Little Book of Cheese, Debbi Dubbs has been a culinary instructor for Williams Sonoma, Sur la Table, Bloomingdale's and now owns Deb's Kitchen where she provides private and team building classes as well as food and wine tours in California and hos...
Made in California with George Geary
September 03, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBGeorge Geary is back with us to talk about his other new book, Made in California, The California-Born Diners, Burger Joints, Restaurants & Fast Food that Changed America, 1951-2010. It’s a wonderful journey into California’s culinary history. Available in May 2024! With wit and wisdom, George guides home cooks on everything from cookies and pastries to cheesecakes, sauces, dressings, and rubs, to how to use a food processor. George had been a featured speaker and lecturer aboard the Hollan...
LA’s Landmark Restaurants with George Geary
August 20, 2023 12:00 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBOur guest this week is author, cooking teacher, culinary tour leader, and pastry chef, George Geary. George’s newest book is L.A.’s Landmark Restaurants, the follow-up book to L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants. This gorgeous coffee table book is an illustrated history of 60 famous Los Angeles restaurants from throughout the 20th century. Includes over 100 recipes! With wit and wisdom, George guides home cooks on everything from cookies and pastries to cheesecakes, sauces, dressings, and rubs, to...
Julie Tran Deily and ADHD
August 13, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MBThis week we talk with one of our favorite returning guests, Julie Tran Deily! Like Denise, Julie has also recently been diagnosed with ADHD. Suddenly, a lot of things started making sense to her. She’s been researching ways to make her life easier and is with us to share what she’s learned. Her new website drops next week; be sure to check it out! creativedatanerd.com, and @creativedatanerd on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. Julie is a former software engineer turned full-time freelancer a...
Bitter Sweet with Kitty Morse
August 06, 2023 12:00 - 47 minutes - 64.8 MBDenise talks with Kitty Morse about her most recent cookbook, Bitter Sweet: A Wartime journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France. Award-winning author Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca, Morocco, of a French mother and British father. She emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. While studying for her Master’s Degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kitty catered Moroccan diffas, or banquets, and went on to teach the intricacies of Moroccan cuisine in cooking ...
Marcella Hazan
July 23, 2023 12:00 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBDenise tells us about working with her idol, Marcella Hazan, when she was a culinary student in San Francisco. Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. SHOW LINKS: Website Join our Facebook group Follow our Facebook page Instagram Episode archive Email us: WomenBe...
Blue Ribbon Kitchen with Linda Skeens
July 16, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBLinda Skeens, author of Recipes and Tips from America’s Favorite County Fair Champion, is with us this week to talk about the joy she finds in cooking, crafts, canning, and family. Last summer at the Virginia Kentucky State Fair, one woman won first, second and third place for best cookies. She also swept all three awards for candy and for savory bread. And won the blue ribbon for cake, pie, brownie, sweet bread, and best overall baked goods (that was strawberry fudge.) But it didn't end th...
C.Lee Cawley: Have a Paper Problem?
July 09, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBCertified Professional Organizer C.Lee Cawley is with us this week to talk about her current mission to bring order to cluttered desks and overwhelmed minds with her signature course “The Paper Cleanse”. Join the webinar waitlist at: https://www.cleecawley.com/enroll C.Lee teaches people how to declutter their paper piles and curate their frustrating files for long-lasting paper organization, without scanning a thing! Through her adroit advice and insightful instruction, C.Lee has transform...
Oh Look, There’s a Bunny!
July 02, 2023 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBThis week Denise talks about working with her ADHD. EPISODE LINKS: ADHD Workbook for Women by Sarah Davis and Linda Hill Anyone Can Improve Their Focus, Huberman Lab Podcast #37 Behavior: Hail to the Hyperactive Hunter, Time Magazine, July 18, 1994 Behavior: Attention Deficient Disorder: Life in Overdrive, Time Magazine, July 18, 1984 Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to t...
Nana’s Creole Italian Table with Liz Williams
June 22, 2023 21:14 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBLiz Williams, author of Nana's Creole Italian Table, a cookbook about the Sicilian community in New Orleans, is with us to chat about growing up in New Orleans. Always fascinated by the way the lure of nutmeg and peppercorns motivated the exploration of the world, Liz Williams was lucky to be born into a family of Sicilian heritage in New Orleans. She grew up eating in two great food traditions. She is a founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum and of the National Food & Beverage Foun...
Getting Healthier with Virginia Willis [Rebroadcast]
June 18, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBVirginia Willis and Denise chat about gaining weight, losing weight, eating healthier, and the apps Weight Watchers and Noom. Virginia has a new booklet out, Fresh Start: My Real Life Daily Guide to Healthy Eating and Weight Loss. Watch Virginia’s show, Cookbooks with Virginia, on her Facebook page and on her YouTube channel. If you miss the live show you can always watch it later on IGTV. Follow and enter to win a free copy of the cookbook of the week every Friday morning on Instagram. You...
The Transformational C.Lee Cawley
June 11, 2023 20:32 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBCertified Professional Organizer C.Lee Cawley (there are fewer than 400 worldwide) is with us this week! Through her adroit advice and insightful instruction, C.Lee has transformed both the living spaces and personal lives of her thousands of followers, clients, and students on five continents. C.Lee's current mission is to bring order to cluttered desks and overwhelmed minds with her signature course “The Paper Cleanse”. In it, she teaches people how to declutter their paper piles and curat...
Pat Greenberg on Self-Esteem [Rebroadcast]
June 04, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutes - 63 MBPat Greenberg is back for another info-packed episode! She talks to us about how denial, fear, anger, and fatigue prevent us from making changes for the better and sap our self-esteem. PAT’S LINKS: Website: https://www.patriciagreenberg.com Email Pat a question: [email protected] Buy Pat’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Patricia-Greenberg/e/B001IR1E2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefitnessgourmet YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatriciaGreenberg LinkedIn: https://www.l...
Life Timeline with Pamela Nelson-Munson
May 28, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBThis week Denise continues her chats with Rev. Pamela Nelson-Munson. Pamela tells us, “People are more involved, creative, happy, and take ownership when given encouragement and free rein to follow their bliss.” She also tells us how she came to have a commercial convection oven in all her parishes. Pam and Denise suggest that all of us write the timeline of our life so we can see just how much we’ve accomplished. Pamela’s goals for retirement: Write my father’s biography. Compile our fam...
Ministry + Cooking = Rev. Pam
May 21, 2023 12:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBThis week Denise chats with her old friend, Rev. Pamela Nelson-Munson. They talk about how neither one was “good in school,” and how they eventually found their places, how a pastor is like a mistress, and taking a break to go to culinary school. She says, “Thinking if I worked hard, was polite, smiled, and wore deodorant that everyone would play nice in the sandbox.” Rev. Pam shares with us some wisdom and some things she’d like to be able to do over: Do-overs: Not be so quick to please a...
Travel Tips!
May 14, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBThis week Denise shares her travel tips for making trips easier! Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. ----more---- SHOW LINKS Website: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBeyond/ Follow our Facebook page: ht...
Ephemera! with Liz Pollock
May 07, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBOur friend Liz Pollock is back with us to talk about the wonderful world of culinary ephemera. You know, all those fantastic old pamphlets and booklets that appliance manufacturers produced to show women how to use their fancy new labor-saving appliances. Stoves and toasters! Fryers and broilers! Blenders and microwaves! Liz has a talk coming up at the Mark Taper Auditorium on May 13th on American Ingenuity and Innovation: Kitchen Appliance Instruction Manuals. Details on the Culinary Histor...
Restaurants in the Bigger Scheme of Things with Michele Jones [Rebroadcast]
April 20, 2023 15:30 - 45 minutes - 62.6 MBMichele Jones is back! This time we talk about how she believes the best restaurants are so much more than places that just sell food; they are community meeting places. We discuss the importance of making everyone who walks through the door feel like a regular, being kind, giving back by aligning your business with charities that share your values (generating valuable earned PR), Keanu Reeves, Drew Barrymore, and Molly Ringwald. Michele is all about great people, great food, and great comm...
The General’s Cook with Ramin Ganeshram [Rebroadcast]
April 16, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBRamin Ganeshram is with us this week to talk about her brilliant book, The General’s Cook. She dedicated 7 years to researching and writing this intriguing and suspenseful novel and continues to pursue leads into the elusive life of America’s first celebrity chef, Hercules Posey. The time: 1793. The place: Philadelphia. Hercules, President George Washington’s chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding...
Self-Compassion with Crescent Dragonwagon [Rebroadcast]
April 09, 2023 11:00 - 57 minutes - 78.4 MBThe Dragon herself, Crescent Dragonwagon, is with us this week! Our conversation jumps around like “like a cat on a june bug,” which makes it all that much more fascinating. She talks self-compassion, writing, and growing up the child of writers. Crescent has a special offer on her Self-Compassion 101 class for our listeners: https://dragonwagon.com/women-beyond-age/ CRESCENT’S LINKS: Self-Compassion 101 video: https://fb.watch/aBHT81nmdF/ Website: https://dragonwagon.com Books: https://...
Culture and Cakes with Nancie McDermott [Rebroadcast]
April 02, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes - 65.9 MBThe wonderful Nancie McDermott is with us this week. We talk cakes and anti-racism. Excerpted from Nancie’s Anti-Racism Facebook page: “I'm Nancie McDermott, a white woman born and raised in North Carolina. I started this group as a place to look at how powerfully and stealthily racism and anti-Blackness are woven into our systems and institutions…We can move toward creating a place of justice and safety; of compassion and respect, of equity with opportunity for everyone. Knowing the truth...
Tanya Holland’s California Soul Journey
March 25, 2023 19:38 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBChef Tanya Holland is with us this week to talk about her journey to becoming Executive Chef and Owner of the internationally renowned and beloved Brown Sugar Kitchen restaurant, in Oakland, California. She is acclaimed for her inventive take on modern soul food, as well as comfort classics. Her newest book, Tanya Holland’s California Soul, features recipes influenced by the historical migration of African American families, including Tanya’s own, using key ingredients, techniques, and tradi...
11 Tips for Healthier Eating with Pat Greenberg
March 19, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBGal-pal of the podcast, Pat Greenberg, is with us to decipher the confusing information around healthy eating. She brings it back to the basics for an effortless approach to having a healthy kitchen. This episode is for anyone who wants to lose some weight, get more fit, or just to be healthier and feel better. Below are suggestions for healthier eating using common food items most of have on hand or can easily get. Making small changes are easier, and they add up to success! No matter wha...
Beautify Your Money with Mikelann Valterra
March 12, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBSeattle Money Coach Mikelann tells us “Beauty makes me feel like I am really living and savoring my life. So why would this be less true in our money and financial life? I want my financial life to be beautiful as well. I want to bring beauty to my money! Otherwise, it is a place of clutter and disorder (and conveys an internal message that I don’t care or honor my money—so really—since I haven’t made it a nice home, why should it stick around??!) Without beauty, my money life feels like th...
Tenacious Bitch with Raghavan Iyer
March 05, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBRaghavan Iyer calls himself “a tenacious bitch,” not letting his terminal diagnosis and endless rounds of chemotherapy stop him from completing his last book, On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor that Seduced the World. If you are lucky enough to know Raghavan, you have been blessed. If you don’t know him, it’s well worth your time to search out more information about him. And to learn more about curry from his books! Raghavan has a GoFundMe campaign Revival Foods Project: Global Comforts...
Agent Extraordinaire Sally Ekus
February 26, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MBAgent Extraordinaire Sally Ekus tells us that the better your cookbook proposal, the bigger the advance. Does your proposal pass the “toddler test?” Listen in to find out what this magical test is! Sally is the lead agent and co-owner at The Ekus Group, a full-service culinary agency specializing in Literary and Talent representation. She represents a wide range of culinary, health, wellness, and lifestyle talent, from first-time cookbook authors to seasoned chefs, RDs, professional food wr...
Amid the Corn with Cristina Potters
February 19, 2023 13:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBCristina Potters is back with us for another information-packed episode, this time we talk about corn! Corn tops rice and wheat for the most produced crop in the world. Corn is over 7000 years old and originated in central Mexico. Cristina gives us a glimpse into the world of corn! Cristina is a Chicago native, arrived in Mexico in 1981. After several years as a social worker in the Tijuana city jail, she lived in Mexico City, then in a tiny village in Michoacán, and subsequently resided f...
Mexico Cooks! with Cristina Potters
February 12, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBCristina Potters, a Chicago native, arrived in Mexico in 1981. After several years as a social worker in the Tijuana city jail, she lived in Mexico City, then in a tiny village in Michoacán, and subsequently resided for many years in the state of Jalisco, including in Guadalajara. Long a permanent fixture in Morelia, Michoacán, she holds dual Mexican and United States citizenship. Cristina learned the cuisines of the central highlands of Mexico from the source: the mayoras (extraordinary o...
Baking Powder Wars with Linda Civitello
February 05, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBLinda Civitello is back with us this week to talk about her award-winning book, Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized Cooking. American women in the 1800s were tied to their kitchens, having to make beer to make yeast so they could bake enough bread for their family to survive. (Bread was more than just a staple, people used to eat a pound a day!) It’s from these women looking for shortcuts that baking powder’s development began. It’s a surprising story involving p...
Cuisine & Culture with Linda Civitello
January 29, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBLinda Civitello, author of the award-winning book Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People, is with us this week to talk about how history, food and culture shape our diet. Linda developed the curriculum and taught history of food at culinary schools in southern California, and speaks frequently on a wide range of food history topics. Her book is used to teach food history in culinary schools. Linda has spoken at Harvard University, appeared on television on Bizarre Foods and on the...
Make Your Home Happy with Pat Greenberg
January 22, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBPat Greenberg is back for part 2 of our downsizing extravaganza! This time we’re discussing downsizing our own living spaces, downsizing the amount of unnecessary stuff that surrounds us, finding happiness in our homes, the importance of having a network of family and friends, and including your passions in your life. Ushering in a new era of bite sized livable health, nutrition and fitness solutions, Pat practices what she preaches. A working wife and mother, she has 30 years of experience...
Downsizing when Parents Pass with Pat Greenberg
January 15, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBOne of our favorite guests, Pat Greenberg, is back with us this week is back with us this week to talk about what to do with a lifetime of stuff when parents pass away. It’s difficult on so many levels. Have you gone through this? How did you handle it? Ushering in a new era of bite sized livable health, nutrition and fitness solutions, Pat practices what she preaches. A working wife and mother, she has 30 years of experience as a Certified Nutritionist, Chef, and Wellness educator. She liv...
Better Boob Health with Magdalena Wszelaki
January 08, 2023 13:00 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBMagdalena Wszelaki is with us this week to talk about something we should all be thinking more about—breasts and breast health. We chat about fibrocystic breasts and how to prevent them, how hormones affect breast health, and about her own journey through Graves’, Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, estrogen dominance, and years of digestive issues. Magdalena is passionate about using her experience and education to help others. Magdalena is an endocrine specialist, chef, certified nutrition coac...