Talking with a frontline Optimist - Krista Simmons

Travel & food writer, and Los Angeles native, Krista Simmons spent her pre-COVID career exploring food cultures around the world. She talks candidly to Tom and Dr Drea about the impact of lockdown on her mental health, her work, and the food & hospitality industries across the globe. Despite the destruction wrought by the virus, she identifies seeds of hope, and an opportunity to rebuild the food industry in a way that could create a more equitable society, heal cultural wounds and reverse the environmental destruction, with a little help from 'the G.O.A.T', David Attenborough.

To find out more about Krista Simmons visit:

@kristasimmons

Twitter https://twitter.com/kristasimmons

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itskristasimmons

Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/fork-in-the-road/id1509620739

Additional references discussed in the podcast:

1. David Attenborough - A Life on Our Planet

2. The Truffle Hunters directed by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

3. Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung

4. Krista's Fork in the Road episode on Belcampo's organic carbon-positive farm - Can Raising Cattle Be Good For the Climate? with Belcampo's Anya Fernald

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