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Eat Well, Travel Often Podcast

Interview with Elana and Yaniv Livneh and Bary Yogev, Liv Bread

In April, 2020, the New York Times ran a story by Michael Corkery and David Yaffe-Bellany about how many of the nation’s largest farms are struggling with this pandemic. It opened the world’s eyes to how farmers who service the restaurant, school, and hotel industies have been forced to destroy tens of millions of pounds...

Interview with Max Goldman, FarmLink

Medicine has always has always been Dr. Mona Ezzat Velinov’s passion, and family medicine in particular provides her an opportunity to develop meaningful, long-term relationships with patients. As a young medical student, Dr. Mona was fascinated with the work of Dr. Andrew Weil, and the idea of helping the body to achieve balance naturally. She...

Interview with Dr. Mona, Functional & Integrative Medicine

Dr. Ron Weiss is not your typical doctor.  His primary care practice is located on a 342 acres of farm in Long Valley, New Jersey where he grows beyond organic produce for his patients.  Otherwise known as the farm doctor, he believes that food-is-medicine and in a Farm Based Health Care System. Dr. Ron Weiss, M.D....

Interview with Dr. Ron Weiss, Ethos Health

More than 26 million people in the United States have now filed unemployment in the five weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began forcing millions of businesses to close their doors. The unemployment rate is pushing toward 15 percent. This pandemic could plunge New York City into the worst economic crisis since the 1970s, costing the city...

Interview with Reggie Bryant and Jessica Johnson, Jobs in NYC

Today, I am speaking with not only two very talented people but the nicest couple I know.  I have known Tariq and Michelle Trotter for about 10 years. Our kids used to go to school together. You may not know Tariq by his given name, he is better known as Black Thought, the lead emcee...

Interview with Michelle & Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter

Years ago my husband, Lewis, did business and financial public relations for David Bouley. At that time, Lewis met Steven Hall who was Bouley’s publicist. After starting this podcast, Lewis and I were talking about who would be great guests to interview and he immediately said I should reach out to Steven Hall, who not...

Interview with Steven Hall, Hall PR & The Dining Bond

For more than 50 years, Ralph Nader has been working to increase goverment and corporate accountabilty.  His first book in 1965, Unsafe at Any Speed, was instrumental in forcing the auto industry to install seatbelts in cars. Ralph’s continuing advocacy has been instrumental in changing food policy. While Ralph Nader has been in the public...

Interview with Ralph Nader

For this episode I am speaking with John Krueger from Circle Brook Farm located in Andover, New Jersey.  John and I have known each other for almost 10 years.  Every summer Circle Brook provides my food cooperative, Farm & Fork Society, with an amazing variety of seasonal vegetables.  John’s farm is a diversified, certified organic,...

Interview with John Kruger, Circle Brook Farm

Before the Coronavirus hit our shores, there were many people in need across the country.  This has only amplified since this pandemic has been spreading across the United States. As of this recording, worldwide there are over 285,000 case. In the U.S., there are almost 20,000 confirmed cases. My small town in New Jersey currently...

Interview with Robin Peacock, Executive Director of MEND NJ

Today’s interview could not be more timely. I am speaking with Maryn McKenna, an independent journalist and author, specializing in public health, global health, and food policy.  When I first reached out to interview Maryn, I was fascinated to talk with her about her book Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern...

Interview with Maryn McKenna, author of Big Chicken and global health specialist

Cannabis, both for medical and recreational use, is exploding across the country. Consuming cannabis goes well beyond rolling a joint or sucking on a vape pen. Now, world-class chefs and mixoligist are mixing cannabis into drinks and food. With so many states legalizing adult use, and with a big push to lift it off federal...

Interview with Jeff The 420 Chef

Today, we live in a time when manufactured medicines and prescriptions prevail, but are they the best and only way to heal? Plants are rarely viewed as anything more than objects that can be reduced to a chemical component, or an object that looks nice perched in a corner. However, many people are finding themselves...

Interview with Shannon Mulligan-Mayernik, Mayernik Kitchen

Dan Lipow is the founder and chief forager of The Foraged Feast based in Maplewood, NJ. In the 1990s, Dan was a professional photographer living in New York City. He worked on assignments around the world sampling the best restaurants in every city and smuggling home the weirdest ingredients he found. This culinary journey to...

Interview with Dan Lipow, The Foraged Feast

When travelling there are so many tours to choose from. You can get on a bus, take a walking tour or tour the city by bike. When I was in Paris years ago, my husband booked Fat Tire Tour.  It was a biking tour of Versailles. We loved it so much that we have taken...

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