Cooking is an intimate process because food offers a way to connect with our past and look toward our future. With a simple recipe, your senses of taste and smell may unleash a flood of memories.

In this episode, we explore how cooking and recipe sharing is intertwined with the grieving and healing process. Whether it's trying to find connection with a lost loved one or to help heal your relationship with yourself, food can act as the catalyst.

HOST: Taylor Camille, Director of Podcasts at Well+Good 

GUESTS:

Frankie Gaw, a designer and cookbook author who really loves food

Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Professor Emerita at University of Massachusetts Amherst

WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:

Frankie Gaw, author of the new cookbook First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home, talks about his own experience of healing through cooking and the recipes from his life that help him through grief. You can find more from Frankie here

Professor Emerita of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Susan Krauss Whitbourne helps us explore why exactly food is so powerful and why we have such an emotional connection to it. You can find more from Professor Whitbourne here

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