Add Passion and Stir – Big Chefs, Big Ideas

Preventing Disaster: Babies and Public Policies

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 … [Read more...]

Fixing Our Broken Food System

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 production, processing, transport, and consumption of food to bring about food justice: Available, Affordable, Nutritious Food for All. … [Read more...]

Purpose Beyond Profit: Two Leaders Find Deeper Meaning in their Corporate Lives

Former Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz and James Beard Award-winning chef 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. … [Read more...]

Lunch Ladies in a Real-Life Chopped Episode Everyday

Chef Marc Murphy, star of Food Network's Chopped, 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 trying to keep them healthy." Hunger Free America CEO Joel Berg shares the startling news that … [Read more...]

The Connection Between Food, Income & Jobs

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 … [Read more...]

Two Showbiz Veterans Change Their Jobs to Change the World

SouperGirl Sara Polon and Amy Celep, CEO of Community Wealth Partners, left their jobs as story tellers (one a comedienne; one a news producer) to change the world. Sara is fighting to fix our food system through the creation of her locally sourced, plant-based business creating delicious, organic soups. Amy leads an organization that partners with … [Read more...]

FOMO: Transforming Fear into Motivation

Karen Akunowicz, a Top Chef contestant + James Beard nominee from Boston's 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. … [Read more...]

The Miraculous Healing Power of Good Food

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 … [Read more...]

Lead with Taste, Create Access

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 expose the institutional barriers many poor people face when trying to keep their family healthy through nutritious food. … [Read more...]

Two Harvard Grads Follow their Passion

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 … [Read more...]