The Chef Who Couldn't Taste Her Own Food — Michelle Nicole Gerard

01/25/22 • 49 min

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Michelle Nicole Gerrard is a poet, chronic illness warrior, food stylist, and vegan chef. She believes in the power of thriving with organic whole foods, and living a life in alignment with nature. She also firmly believes that the more we care, the more we give and the more we show up for people, the more powerful we become.

In this episode, Michelle shares her journey with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and the challenges (and joys) of cooking without the sense of taste. Plus, we discuss what she learned living (and eating) in Kenya, and some of her favorite recipes in her latest cookbook, Olfactory.
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Connect with Michelle
Website: https://michellenicolegerrard.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelle.nicole.gerrard
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/chellemarriott
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Previous Episode

Why Vegan is Not the Answer — Chef Dr. Mike

Michael S. Fenster, MD, better known as Chef Dr. Mike, is one of a handful of physicians worldwide to hold both culinary and medical degrees and is the only Interventional Cardiologist, and Professional Chef to do so. Through his Culinary Medicine course at the University of Montana, speaking events, articles, books, personal outreach, and media appearances, Chef Dr. Mike has become the voice of Culinary Medicine. His message empowers people to take control of their health, wellness, and happiness through a positive relationship with food.

In today's episode, Chef Dr. Mike walks us through a brief history of nutrition, why an omnivore diet us establish ourselves as a successful species, and the NOVA Food Classification that helps us identify real foods vs. ultra-processed foods.
Links Mentioned
Dan Buettner’s Blue Zones study: https://www.bluezones.com/dan-buettner/
Harvard Happiness Study: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham: https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0465013627
Regenerative Agriculture: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/regenerative-agriculture-101
The End of Overeating by David Kessler: https://www.amazon.com/End-Overeating-Insatiable-American-Appetite/dp/1605294578
NOVA Food Classification: https://educhange.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOVA-Classification-Reference-Sheet.pdf

Connect with Chef Dr. Mike
Website: https://chefdrmike.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realchefdrmike/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ77UNYMvQKOqClng6REJOQ
Follow Farm to Future on Instagram at @farm.to.future

Discounts

Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium

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Next Episode

Regenerative is the new Organic — Joel Salatin

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Joel Salatin, 64, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas Jefferson. Those who don’t like him call him a bio-terrorist, Typhoid Mary, charlatan, and starvation advocate.

He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the callouses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.

In this episode, Joel shares how his family turned the worst piece of land into one of the most biodiverse farms in the country, why we ended up with a chemical-based agriculture system post-WWII, and what it will really take (logistically, financially, personally) to shift to a large-scale carbon-based food system.
Connect with Joel:
Polyface Farms: https://www.polyfacefarms.com/
Follow Farm to Future on Instagram at @farm.to.future

Discounts

Get 10% off delicious local farm-fresh food delivered to your door with my link for FarmMatch: https://farmmatch.com/jane
Get 15% off high-quality Italian olive oil with code FARMTOFUTURE: https://shop.vignolifood.com/FARMTOFUTURE
Get 40% the CircleDNA’s Premium DNA test with code JANEZHANG: https://circledna.com/premium

Connect with Jane Z.