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.
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Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/fork-in-the-road/id1509620739
Additional references discussed in the podcast:
David Attenborough - A Life on Our Planet
The Truffle Hunters directed by Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw
Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung
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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