Add Passion And Stir

In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, Washington, DC Chef Tim Ma (Kyirisan) and Nurse-Family Partnership’s CEO Roxane White talk with Share Our Strength founder and CEO Billy Shore and Share Our Strength's Managing Director of Development, Elliott Gaskins about why they “give back.” Chef Tim and Roxane share their poignant personal stories of how their pasts shaped the people they are today and inspired them to work with vulnerable populations like low-income pregnant women, ex-offenders and homeless people. Roxane describes that nutrition is critical for expectant mothers and young babies, saying “If we lose the first two years of brain development, we never recover.” Listen to their discussion on how we can help one another survive poverty, hunger and bad circumstances. Listen and Learn: · How prenatal nutrition and health has lifelong implications, even regarding criminal activity · How social programs can create a sense of pride and not shame · How ev

In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, Boston chef Ming Tsai (Blue Ginger, Blue Dragon) and Boston Medical Center pediatrician Debbie Frank talk with Share Our Strength founder Billy Shore about the vulnerability of children to food insecurity. Chef Ming and Dr. Frank bring different perspectives to the concept of food as medicine, particularly for children and families with few resources. Listen to their timely conversation about the profound health and economic consequences of poor nutrition and the responsibility we all share to protect children in our communities. Listen and Learn • The invisible effects of malnutrition - developmental, behavioral and medical impacts on kids • The serious and even fatal consequences of policy decisions that cut social programs like Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps), and threaten the stability of immigrants • What chefs and individuals can do to help families who are food insecure Resources and Mentions • No Kid Hungry nokidhungry.org Share Our St

James Beard Award-Winner Mary Sue Milliken and former hedge fund trader-turned-social entrepreneur Sam Polk lay out their plans to revolutionize and repair the the production, processing, transport, and consumption of food to bring about food justice: Available, Affordable, Nutritious Food for All. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Former Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz and James Beard Award-winner Tony Maws discuss the material and spiritual benefit of running successful businesses when you are willing to look beyond the profit motive for decision making. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Chopped Star Chef Marc Murphy cites the heroic efforts of public school cafeteria workers on the front lines fighting childhood hunger in America. Murphy says, "These are Lunch Chefs...Taking very little to feed a lot of kids and try to keep them healthy." Hunger Free America CEO Joel Berg shares the startling news that hungry people in America number greater than the entire populations of California and New Hampshire combined: 42 Million Men, Women, and Children. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Top Chef star and DC restaurateur Spike Mendelsohn and George Jones, CEO of Bread for the City, discuss strengthening public services in an effort to create jobs & feed families. In their respective roles as the head of one of the most successful safety nets for the poor people of DC and as the chairman of the DC Food Policy Council, George and Spike see how resourceful families struggle to feed, clothe, and shelter a family with three children for less than $18 per day. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Top Chef Contestant and James Beard Nominee Karen Aukinowicz from Myers+Chang and Eric Schwarz Co-founder and CEO of the College for Social Innovation talk about fear as a motivating factor for positive change instead of a destabilizing inhibitor. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Seamus Mullen, the owner and chef of Tertulia in New York City and Sam Kass the former Executive Director of Let’s Move! and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy at the White House discuss with Billy Shore the amazing restorative powers of good food. Sam Kass traces the origin of Michelle Obama's food policy with the health challenges being faced by the First Daughters Malia and Sasha. "It's not about health food, it's about good food." Seamus Mullen was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease and was near death from the side effects of the medicine he was taking. Today, he has completely eliminated the disease from his body thanks to changes in his diet. "If a tree has brown leaves, you don't paint the leaves green. You look at the root system and the soil." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Michael Friedberg Co-Founder of Yellowbelly Chicken and Gabriel Guillaume President and CEO of Live Well Colorado answer the question: Why don't people eat well? Their answers of Taste and Access exposes the institutional barriers many poor people face when trying keep their family healthy through nutritious food. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

James Beard Award-winner Joanne Chang of (Myers + Chang; Flour Bakery) and Alan Khazei (City Year; Be the Change) were both Harvard graduates who abandoned the careers for which their studies trained them to follow their passion. Discover how the road to success can be found by following your heart and caring deeply for the well-being of others. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Seth Goldman, the president and CEO of Honest Tea and former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry talk about Activist Entrepreneurship: For-profit companies that can radically improve the health and well-being of children in the United States. Shockingly, the United States ranks dead last among industrialized nations on the issue of children's health according to the global non-profit organization Save The Children. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jeff Mills, the founder and CEO of Genuine Foods, and John "Bridge" Bridgeland, the founder and CEO of Civic, discuss the role of the civilian in bringing about radical positive change in government and institutions. As the Director of Food and Nutrition Services for the schools of the District of Columbia, Jeff replaced a broken system that fed 50,000 children pizza and strawberry milk every day. In its place, he created a daily menu of freshly cooked nutritious meals. Bridge demonstrates the Return on Investment when prioritizing the health and well-being of children, See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Top Chef Finalist and James Beard Award-winner Bryan Voltaggio teamed with children's advocate Anne Sheridan, the former Executive Director of the Governor's Office for Children in Maryland, to convince the State Legislature to feed hungry children a nutritious breakfast in the classroom. That effort provided the blueprint for helping children across the country to access the food and fuel the need to survive and thrive as more and more states adopt the School Breakfast Program. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Food and Wine's #1 New Chef of 2015, Bryce Shuman, and Irwin Redlener, the founder and president of the Children's Health Fund explore the dynamic of food, hunger, health, and brain development. Children in poverty who grow up hungry have less brain volume and fewer synapses than their more fortunate counterparts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mark Shriver, President of the Save The Children Action Network, and DC legend Chef Geoff, talk about the need to invest in children and "The Bobblehead Syndrome" "The children are our future," is a common refrain from politicians until it's time allocate budgets. Billy, Mark, and Geoff examine how we can voice to the voiceless. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

James Beard Award-Winner Traci De Jardins and California Secretary of Health and Human Services Diana Dooley discuss the future of food and the need for certain Genetically Modified Organisms to produce sustainable foods for our growing populations, including plant-based substitutes for meat from Impossible Foods. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

States around the country are leaving hundreds of millions of dollars designated to feed hungry children on the table and in some cases, they don't even know the funding exists. Chef Andy Husbands points out that the wasted money not only feeds children it pays local farmers. Judy Ann Bigby, director of the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence in Women's Health, connects the lack of healthy food in the food deserts of low-income neighborhoods with the disturbing rise in diabetes and cancer. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

James Beard Award-winning chef Jody Adams of Porto--and formerly of Rialto-- talks with Billy and and Paul Grogan, the President of the Boston Foundation, about the secret cure for childhood hunger that is achievable today in our nation's schools. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Award-winning chef Bill Telepan fights for fresh food in the New York City public schools while working with Eric Goldstein, CEO of The New York City Public School's Office of School Support Services, who feeds 1 Million kids per day. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Legendary Boston chef and restaurateur Gordon Hamersley and Gerald Chertavian, the founder and CEO of Year Up, a non-profit organization dedicated to closing the Opportunity Divide, discuss concrete solutions to enable low-income young adults to reach their full potential. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.