Can you really enjoy food if you're constantly dieting? We discuss dieting vs. simply focusing on getting highest quality food, having pleasure about it and loving your body as it is vs. the mindset of "when I achieve the perfect body, then I will be lovable."

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Join us for a World Tour Taste Test and get to know ice cream made with cacao and vanilla grown in exotic rainforests around the world. Choctál’s eight origins come from places like Costa Rica, Indonesia, Ghana and Papua New Guinea. Each origin tastes significantly different than the next. Choctál is a single-origin ultra premium ice cream company that produces four varieties of chocolate and four varieties of vanilla and is known for being the only single-origin ice cream company, a concept usually found in coffee. Each type of ice cream is made from a single variety of cacao or vanilla beans, creating more complex flavor than traditional ice cream.

Listen along for a discussion about ice cream, geography, nutrition, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, and join us with guests on the mic:

• Nancy Hytone-Leb of Choctál Single Origin Ice cream

• Jen Maravegias, Mom and Ice Cream Lover

• Jen Maler, Photographer Ice Cream Lover

• Sacha Jones, Holistic Health Coach, Stiggly Holistics

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

I was a vegan, and a health coach when I developed my cancer. It happens. But, why? Fellow health coach, Christine Walsh Egan, Hay House author of The Healthy Girl’s Guide to Breast Cancer, comes in to talk about her “unthinkable one-year journey,” something I, and too many, can relate to. Cancer stories usually start with some kind of struggle or fight. This story starts with a song. “You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? You may say to yourself, my God, what have I done?” These words rang true for Christine Egan. Many questions and stories circulate about cancer. Are you telling yourself you are a victim of cancer? Are you worried the cancer will come back? Are you stuck in the role of being sick? Egan made a conscious choice to tell a different story. The Healthy Girl’s Guide to Breast Cancer is part memoir and part guide revealing the all-too-true story of cancer in this country with a healthy twist. Rest assured-this is not a cancer story; it’s a story about health and wellness!

Emily Hyland, of Brooklyn’s Pizza Loves Emily, and soon-to-open Detroit-Style pizza hotspot, Emmy Squared, brings in her crew of awesome women to discuss the importance of primary food in their pizza making lives. How does yoga, music, and playing with babies make for a happy and successful pizza business? Tune in and find out!

Listen along for a fun and loving glimpse into sisterhood, motherhood, pizzahood, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guests on the mic:

• Emily Hyland and her life-and-pizza-loving team from Pizza Loves Emily

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

Don’t go to culinary school until you have listened to this episode! New Orleans gem, Chef Bird Garcia from Jalopy Tavern in Red Hook, Brooklyn, comes in to talk about his life in food and music, and what it’s REALLY like to start from the bottom as a dishwasher to become a veteran chef. We discuss garlic’s role in a crawfish boil and how to do it right, Bird’s horror stories of food terrorism and real kitchen nightmares when a pizza oven breaks down. For an added bonus, get the feels when you he tells you what’s it like being a new father.

Listen along for a ska & punk serenade, and hear discussions about guerrilla learning in the kitchen, how to grow in the culinary field, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guest on the mic:

• Chef Bird Garcia of Jalopy Tavern / Jalopy Theatre & School of Music

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

Did you ever think of different genres of music being like different plates/styles/flavors of food? Brooklyn Bowl’s very own Rock and Roll Playhouse are here talking about how not only is the food we eat nourishing for our lives, but so is the music we play and listen to. Listen along for an ukulele serenade and hear discussions about the love of music as nourishment, the effect on music on children, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guests on the mic:

• Devlin Goldberg and Paolo Perez from the Rock and Roll Playhouse

http://therockandrollplayhouse.com/

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

New Orleans is in the house! Chef Airis Johnson has just developed her own line of spice blends, influenced by her Louisiana tastebuds and working for greats like Danny Meyer (Shake Shack), Gordon Ramsay (Gordon Ramsay at the London, NYC), Sue Torres (Suenos) and Whole Foods Market, to name a few. Building your own business and being your own boss is some great primary food when you’re doing it with love, fun, and are full of passion like Chef Airis is.

• Chef Airis Johnson http://airisthechefcooks.com/

• Trés Myers, Musician and Poet, awesome assistant to DJ CherishTheLuv at Music Heals

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

It is so frustrating when you’re not being heard and you can’t express yourself freely. Allowing yourself to flow with your words is hugely nourishing and healing for all. This is so important to our health and understanding of one another’s experiences. Today’s episode of Primary Food has a lineup of freestyle rappers, poets, and even SURPRISE poets – people we didn’t even know had serious secret rhyming skills hidden and buried within them (listen and find out who at HRN!). We will be venting and letting our minds, mouths and rhymes run wild and free, exercising our quick thinking and creative intuition. Listen along and learn how to beatbox, think about how to nourish yourself with your own words, hear more about Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guests on the mic:

• Terry “Kid Lucky” Lewis, Beatboxer and Master of Beatrhyming

https://www.facebook.com/KidLuckyProductions/

• Dama Nilz, Rap Artist

https://www.facebook.com/Damanilz/

• Charles Waters, Poet and Actor

http://www.charleswaterspoetry.com/

• Trés Myers, Musician and Poet, awesome assistant to DJ CherishTheLuv at Music Heals

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match… Well, the previous episode of Primary Food was about weddings and ceremonies, but how do you even get to the wedding stage without a great relationship going? That’s why we’ve got on the mic Professional Matchmaker and Relationship Expert, Gabi Lovve, discussing it all, from sexual compatibility, to alpha males, strong femmes and queens, mind mastering, card readings, and more. Chiming in about relationships and getting insight of her own is Primary Food veteran, Susan Hannigan, Life Coach. Listen along to discussions about love, OKCupid, relationship timing, Primary Food, cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, plus more, with guests on the mic:

• Gabi Lovve, Lovve Enterprises, Professional Matchmaker and Love Coach

• Susan Hannigan, Life Coach

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.

How do you choose a wedding officiant? How do you commemorate life’s other momentous events? Baby namings, pet losses, even honor a divorce for closure you might needing? How do you memorialize people who have shaped you? Draw support from those you hold dear? Today, we are three ordained ministers, RevLuv and two wonderful guests from the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, sharing stories about the art, magic, power and beauty of rituals and ceremonies in our lives… and why we need more. Listen along to discussions about this, Primary Food, my cancer survival, Integrative Nutrition, how to choose a wedding officiant plus more, with guests on the mic:

• Charlotte Eulette, International Director of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute

Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of  PRIMARY FOOD ’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this episode. Thefood on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary Food is all the stuff in life that nourishes us before we eat—Our creativity, our relationships, our spirituality, physical activity and interaction with this awesome world we live in. It was the great relationships with her Self, with others, with art, music, writing, nature, travel, food and dance, that were the groundwork of Cynthia’s successful and smooth cancer treatment. As Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, she aims to share this knowledge to help others heal and find more ease and inner peace around the world.