I'm sorry you're going through the health challenges you are, but thank you for sharing them. I loved your book and I love good food as much as I love good writing. I also have been living with a variably evolving, very restrictive diet for decades now as I have severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I've had to get resourceful in my ingredient-substitution language as I pretty much have to cook all my own food (I can't even eat garlic and onions - booo!!!). Still, I refuse to eat the same boring, aggressively-healthy-at-the-cost-of-all-flavour things over and over.
Why I truly appreciate your post is that I am tired of watching/reading cooks/chefs who are married to 'the classics' of butter, dairy, wheat, soy and so on. I get that they taste amazing, I truly do remember! But the combination of mainstream North American eating and driving forward at a dizzying pace take a massive toll on our health, no questions about it. So I love hearing your ideas about food combinations and cooking methods within your health means because you too refuse to be relegated to flavourless-ness food.
Good for you for taking your own body seriously and for challenging your own creative parameters. Nourishment is about so much more than just an ingredient list. The front end of changing your eating is the hardest bit. It does get better as you emerge from the most severe restrictions. And it will be possible to keep your identity as a chef even as you re-wire your relationship to the food you eat. All the best to you.
I love this world you vulnerably and sensorily share with us. What a gift. For every wave of resistance you have to share in this space we ask... swim through! 🙏🏼
I saved this read for Monday morning because I knew it would be the insightful and thought provoking read Mondays call for and I was right. Thank you 🙏
Thank you! I was able to talk with you Saturday after your reading. I’m so thrilled to join your followers and hope to participate in a culinary tour soon.
I read your memoir 2 years ago, and then listened to the audio book last year….both times were life changing. As a woman whom herself needs to get out of her own way, too much time in my own head, these words have resonated deeply. I am not a chef, but adore feeding my family, and food is definitely my love language. Thank you for being so vulnerable and honest. It’s SO refreshing!!!
I'm sorry you're going through the health challenges you are, but thank you for sharing them. I loved your book and I love good food as much as I love good writing. I also have been living with a variably evolving, very restrictive diet for decades now as I have severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I've had to get resourceful in my ingredient-substitution language as I pretty much have to cook all my own food (I can't even eat garlic and onions - booo!!!). Still, I refuse to eat the same boring, aggressively-healthy-at-the-cost-of-all-flavour things over and over.
Why I truly appreciate your post is that I am tired of watching/reading cooks/chefs who are married to 'the classics' of butter, dairy, wheat, soy and so on. I get that they taste amazing, I truly do remember! But the combination of mainstream North American eating and driving forward at a dizzying pace take a massive toll on our health, no questions about it. So I love hearing your ideas about food combinations and cooking methods within your health means because you too refuse to be relegated to flavourless-ness food.
Good for you for taking your own body seriously and for challenging your own creative parameters. Nourishment is about so much more than just an ingredient list. The front end of changing your eating is the hardest bit. It does get better as you emerge from the most severe restrictions. And it will be possible to keep your identity as a chef even as you re-wire your relationship to the food you eat. All the best to you.
Thank you so much for this kind and thoughtful note Carrie!
It is so fun to relearn cooking from this place. I'm glad it feels useful to others as well!
I hope you continue on a happy and healthy path in your journey with food. It's so good to know we'r not alone! :)
I love this world you vulnerably and sensorily share with us. What a gift. For every wave of resistance you have to share in this space we ask... swim through! 🙏🏼
Thanks for this Katie - sending you so much love xo
I'll keep swimming through :)
I saved this read for Monday morning because I knew it would be the insightful and thought provoking read Mondays call for and I was right. Thank you 🙏
Oh I'm so glad. Thank you!
Thank you! I was able to talk with you Saturday after your reading. I’m so thrilled to join your followers and hope to participate in a culinary tour soon.
Hilda, it was so lovely to meet you this weekend! I do hope you join us for a trip! We would love to have you. xo
I read your memoir 2 years ago, and then listened to the audio book last year….both times were life changing. As a woman whom herself needs to get out of her own way, too much time in my own head, these words have resonated deeply. I am not a chef, but adore feeding my family, and food is definitely my love language. Thank you for being so vulnerable and honest. It’s SO refreshing!!!