Eat Well, Travel Often Podcast: Recent Episodes

Melissa Goldberg

Everything from Book to Plate

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Photo Credit: Johanna Ginsberg, New Jersey Jewish News

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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For more than 50 years, Ralph Nader has been working to increase goverment and corporate accountability.  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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Travel can be a transending experience. It is a great way to release stress. It can take you away from your problems. I love dreaming about where to go next. But we cannot travel everyday. We need to find other ways to help us to respond to life’s daily stresses.  For this podcast, I am deviating just...

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JOANNA SALTZ: Delish Insane Sweets  Joanna Saltz is the Editor Director of House Beautiful and Delish.  At House Beautiful, Joanna is responsible for its print and digital content across all platforms. She relaunched housebeautiful.com in 2018 and her first print issue was in January last year.  Since 2015, Joanna has been at Delish where she...

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Charles Platkin: The Diet Detective For more than two decades, Dr. Charles Stuart Platkin, PhD, JD, MPH as been working to uncover the mysteries and myths surrounding food, nutrition, fitness and medicine. Started over 20 years ago, his non-profit Diet Detective has been educating and inspiring consumers to make meaningful changes in their lives. Charles...

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Niki Segnit:  Lateral Cooking One Dish Leads to Another Cookbook author Niki Segnit is the author of the The Flavour Thesaurus and her newest cookbook Lateral Cooking: One Dish Leads to Another. The premise of this newest book is if we can master one simple dish then we’ve got the start of a very clear...

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JAMES RICH: Apple Recipes from the Orchard James Rich is the author of Apple: Recipes from the Orchard. James travelled across the Atlantic Ocean to join me at my local book store, The Book House, for my monthly cookbook author events — Book to Plate. James was raised in Somerset, England where he grew up...