Chef Rossi: Recent Episodes
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Tune in Monthly for Raging Skillet Radio - Mouthing Off with Chef Rossi!
Each show Rossi "aka Chef Rossi" mouths off about a different subject in the pursuit of breaking down walls and opening up minds. She and Dr. Pat banter using the subject of each show as the framework for that show, adding their own unique styles as they go.
More About Chef Rossi-
Rossi, yes, she only has one name -– has been a writer for many publications, such as The Daily News, The New York Post, Time Out New York and Mcsweeney's to name a few. She has been the food writer of the "Eat Me" column for Bust magazine since 1998, hosts her own hit radio show on WOMR and WFMR in Cape Cod called "Bite This," now in its twelfth season, has been featured on "The Food Network" and "NPR” and is a popular blogger for “The Huffington Post.”
As the owner and executive chef of "The Raging Skillet," a cutting-edge catering company known for breaking any and all rules, she has earned a reputation as the one to call when it's time to do something different.
The Raging Skillet has been called "a new breed of rebel anti-caterer" by The New York Times, "the wildest thing this side of the mason Dixon line" by Zagat and has been named among The Knot’s Best Of Wedding Caterers for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 2015 and now 2016. Having won six years in a row, The Raging Skillet is in The Knot’s hall of fame!
On November of 2015 Rossi’s first memoir; The Raging Skillet/The True Life Story of Chef Rossi was published from the Feminist Press to rave reviews.
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Chef Rosi Talks about her own experience coming out, facing adversity, standing tall and living her life out loud and pray as a gay woman. Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/
Passover starts Chef Rossi First Seder is Saturday March 27th Watch LIVE on Facebook! Go to: www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio
2020 has been a rough year for most of us. Trying to remain safe from Covid 19 and also dealing with the enormous economic disaster. How can we protect ourselves and our loved ones and still live a thriving joyful life? Not easy. But keeping the love flowing is the right start. Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/
Chef Rossi talks about how to be happy, healthy and relatively sane in the pandemic! Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/
The United States is supposed to stand for freedom that all men are created equal, but in today's America, it doesn't feel that way. The president seeks to bar transgender people from the military and Muslims from immigrating to the U.S. A woman's right to choose is under attack. This is far from freedom.
In a world laced with homophobia, which feels a bit worse of late, it can be hard to feel proud of who you are when you are gay. Embracing our true selves and celebrating our love, passion and glory is the best victory over adversity. We are beautiful. Love is love.
Cramming tax legislation at 2AM that was not even read - Accused child molesters running for Senate - Wars prompted with the flick of pen. In this time when it feels like no one, in power, in America, cares. We need to find a way to channel the spirit of the holidays now and keep the love flowing all year long!
Between Harvey Weinstein, the president's remarks about women and the ME TOO movement, America seems to finally be waking up to the magnitude of the sexual harassment of women. It's time to really make a change.
In between good and evil is the place most of us live, how can we navigate towards the light in a world that seems determined to pull us to the dark?
Democrats, Republicans - Move Over! It's time for a new Party....the Party of Anti-Mean! Time to Love. Time to Abolish Racism, Homophobia, and Sexism. Time for One Party and One Race; Human Beings. Read Chef Rossi's Huffington Post Anti-Mean Article
How can we reach someone s heart through their stomach? How can you taste and feel when someone loved the food you re eating when they cooked it? How can we spread joy and love through the frying pan? Chef Rossi and Dr Pat explore this delicious topic. I always sign my books the same way, Food is love, because it really is or certainly should be. - Rossi
How much of crime and cruelty comes from children who grew up without enough love? How many great successes can trace the moment their world turned to a teacher, a mentor, someone who took them under their wing. "I ve had SHEROES in my life who turned me away from darkness and towards my own glory, says Chef Rossi. I feel it s extra important as a woman to pass on my knowledge and power to the next generation of ladies. ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW - CALL 860-527-7838READ PRESS RELEASE HERE
Rossi uses her own story to talk about being proud of who you are and opening up your heart to the fact that love is love. Walking down the street holding my lover s hand was life threatening when I first came out in 1982. In 1989, a gang of kids surrounded my girlfriend and I walking down the street holding hands in the West Village. One of them reached for a gun. I still don t know what would have happened if a cop hadn t driven by. I guess you might not be reading this. Today, I see young gay couples fearlessly holding hands all the time. Sometimes I shake my head and think aloud, These kids have no idea how much we had to fight for the safety they take for granted. But I met an older woman once, a pre-Stonewall lesbian, who said the same thing about me. These days, it feels like we ve stepped back in time. Hate crimes are up. Lots of gay and transgender kids are feeling frightened.
But I look at the beautiful young gay couples giddily walking past me and feel hope. Maybe, just maybe, we really can change the world. Maybe love really can win.
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Just like the school yard bully you have to stand up...stand up to bullies. You find them in the school yard and in the workplace. Bullies can be kids of all ages, and adults of all ages. Confrontation can be scary, but bullies are usually insecure, immature, and entitled brats. But you have to be brave in today's America. Stand up. Be heard. You can be heard by calling in during the show at 800.930.2819"I have learned a few things over the years. In school, I learned that when a bully tormented you, YOU had to fight back. Even if it meant a bloody nose. You had to fight back or that bully would have license to torture you for years." Rossi"Bullies are usually insecure, immature, and entitled brats. They cry when confronted. They seek others to make themselves feel bigger." Rossi Watch LIVE VIDEO on Facebook Monday the 1st at 11am pacific/ 2pm eastern! Click here for The Dr. Pat Show FB page
This show explores sexism in America and how women get the message that they aren t as good or deserving as men. Starting when we are little girls - we have this drummed in to us. How can we change the message? We can do almost anything a man can do except for giving sperm. WOMEN ROAR!
In this show Rossi asks to imagine how it might feel to walk a mile in someone else s shoes. How might it feel to be a Muslim in America today? How might it feel to be a gay person denied rights, to be a woman, to be a coal miner in Kentucky. To the homophobic person how might it feel to have the love of your life be illegal? To the man who is sexist try to imagine being a woman. "Walk a mile in my shoes." You ve heard that expression before. But what if we really did that?
Just for one day. Just for one hour. Just for one moment. What if we could truly imagine what it felt like to be someone else?
Rossi’s journey to become of New York City’s wildest and most beloved anti-caterers, includes growing up with Harriet; world’s wackiest Jewish mother, running away from home as a teen, being sent to live with the Chassid’s in Crown Heights Brooklyn, becoming a bartender on a floating tourist trap of a ship, turning her love of feeding others into becoming a chef in the 80’s when women were not welcome in professional kitchens, cooking at ground zero on “911”, surviving Hurricane Sandy to cater and speak for Ms. Magazine and all the while with humor and recipes. Rossi endures enormous and often-hysterical obstacles to ultimately build her own established catering company The Raging Skillet.