Magdalena Wszelaki is with us this week to talk about something we should all be thinking more about—breasts and breast health. We chat about fibrocystic breasts and how to prevent them, how hormones affect breast health, and about her own journey through Graves’, Hashimoto’s, adrenal fatigue, estrogen dominance, and years of digestive issues. Magdalena is passionate about using her experience and education to help others. Magdalena is an endocrine specialist, chef, certified nutrition coach, he...
Jan 08, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 215
We're taking a break for the holidays! We'll be back on January 8th, 2023 with new episodes! Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women. SHOW LINKS: Website: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBeyond/ Follow our Facebook pa...
Dec 25, 2022•1 min
In this episode we talk with Courtney Nzeribe about great holiday gift ideas for the food lovers on your list. Courtney’s background is in Retail and Accounts in the cosmetic and culinary/home arenas. In addition, she has extensive catering experience for private clients and the diplomatic consular community in the Chicago area, as well as most recently serving on the catering crew for The Rolling Stones No Filter kickoff in St. Louis. Besides her culinary interests, she has appeared in print wr...
Dec 18, 2022•56 min•Season 4Ep. 214
Chris Taylor and Paul Agruin are back with us for a second episode! We’re talking about giving home-baked gifts for the holidays; how to make, how to store, how condensation is the enemy of freshness, and the importance of packaging. Their latest book, Fabulous Modern Cookies, is packed with delicious recipes, variations and tips (and even a nifty flavor index). Paul and Chris are scientists who used their backgrounds to develop logical and reliable recipes that are baker friendly. The couple me...
Dec 11, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 213
This week we have the authors of Fabulous Modern Cookies, Chris Taylor and Paul Agruin. Chris and Paul are scientists who used their backgrounds to develop logical and reliable recipes that are baker friendly. The couple met through a mutual friend in 2009 and have been baking together ever since. Chris is a full-time epidemiologist and Paul Arguin is a double-board certified MD. Both are self-taught bakers and enjoy winning competitive baking championships. Their first book was, The New Pie: Mo...
Dec 04, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 212
This week we have the creator of the incredible Pasta Grannies, Vicky Bennison! Vicky’s YouTube series has nearly two million followers and her first Pasta Grannies cookbook has been translated into six languages. As well as meat, seafood and vegetable pasta recipes, chapters cover pizzas, pastries and pies, rice, pulses, dairy, herbs, nuts, and spices. Every recipe is accompanied with a QR code which will take you to the YouTube videos of these remarkable women and their recipes. Complete with ...
Nov 27, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 211
Elizabeth Ann Quirino is back with us this week to talk about her upcoming book, Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter’s Reflections on Her Mother’s Bravery, a memoir with Filipino recipes. Betty Ann has published three cookbooks: Instant Filipino Recipes: My Mother’s Traditional Philippine Food in a Multicooker Pot, a follow up to My Mother’s Philippine Recipes, a collection of her late mother’s favorite Filipino classic dishes which Betty Ann transformed to everyday cooking in her American kitche...
Nov 20, 2022•33 min•Season 5Ep. 210
Thanksgiving superhero Rick Rodgers is with us this week! And just in time for Thanksgiving! Rick and Denise talk about cooking for the holidays, making it easier on yourself, and the importance of lists, lists, and more lists. As the author of Thanksgiving 101 , he knows his way around Thanksgiving! Below Rick give us his recipe for Cranberry, Ginger, and Lemon Chutney. Rick is a legendary cookbook author and award-winning culinary teacher. He is an expert on the desserts and history of the liv...
Nov 13, 2022•52 min•Season 5Ep. 209
We are so excited to have Elizabeth Ann Quirino with us this week to talk about Filipino food, family and, and her blog, The Quirino Kitchen. She has written and indie published three cookbooks: Instant Filipino Recipes: My Mother’s Traditional Philippine Food in a Multicooker Pot, a follow up to My Mother’s Philippine Recipes, a collection of her late mother’s favorite Filipino classic dishes which Betty Ann transformed to everyday cooking in her American kitchen. She has won too many awards to...
Nov 06, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 208
We are ever-so-lucky to have the delightful and irrepressible Crescent Dragonwagon back with us to talk about another of her wonderful books out in a new edition. This time it’s Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread, a Country Inn Cookbook. Raghavan Iyer says, “Soup and bread in her capable hands create all the right magic for the body and soul,” and that her “recipes sing with flavor.” Below Crescent shares one of her readers’ favorites (as mentioned in this episode), just in time for autumn For ...
Oct 30, 2022•48 min•Season 5Ep. 207
We continue our chat with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, author of Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age. This episode we talk about the too-often-shameful subject of incontinence. And, yes, we do laugh about it…because we’ve all been there. Dr. Suzanne is a diplomat of the American College of Obstetrics and gynecology. She received her medical degree in 1996 from the USC School of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Ceda...
Oct 23, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 206
We’ve been looking for years for a menopause specialist to have on our show…and the universe has delivered! This week we chat with the author of the fresh-off-the-presses book, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age, Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz. Dr. Suzanne believes that the 27 million women entering menopause each year deserves thoughtful, candid, modern, holistic information surrounding this transitional stage in our lives. Real information on menopau...
Oct 16, 2022•44 min•Season 5Ep. 205
Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jessica Love pair up in this lovely and powerful new edition of Crescent’s classic picture book, Will It Be Okay? Those things which caused us to seek comfort in 1977 still require loving attention today. We are reminded, with humanity, grace, and humor, that, yes—yes, it will be okay. Oatmeal cookies also make things okay. Crescent shares her tummy-warming recipe with us. Dairy Hollow House Oatmeal Cookies Makes about 72 2-inch cookies When guests checked ou...
Oct 09, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 204
The publisher of Southern Grit Magazine is with us this week to talk watermelon, Virginian food, mid-century modern furniture, Joseph Hemings, watermelon, breakfast, Megan Thee Stallion, chicken muddle, and watermelon! Fitz talks about photographing his magazine (his photography is gorgeous), Carla Hall critiquing his watermelon jam, how yock originated in Virginia not New Orleans, among many other subjects. Fitz’s links: Magazine: https://southerngritmagazine.com Watermelon journey: https://sou...
Oct 02, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 203
Michael Twitty is with us this week to talk about ethnic and culinary history, his Southern Discomfort Tour and his books, The Cooking Gene and Koshersoul. Michael is a culinary historian and food writer. His award-winning book, The Cooking Gene, traces his ancestry through food from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. In Koshersoul, Michael explores two of the most distinctive cultures in the world: the foods and traditions of the Aftican Atlantic, and the global Jewish diaspora. Mic...
Sep 18, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 202
Coleen Kirnan from Tuscan Women Cook is with us to talk about her immersive Tuscan cooking tours which are up and running again! There’s even a new online marketplace so you can shop the area even if you can’t get there yet. Coleen has been welcoming guests to Montefollonico in the province of Sienna for over 20 years, after a drastic midlife change in her career. She creates an insider’s Italian itinerary filled with friendly, knowledgeable tour guides, translators, and private cooking classes ...
Sep 11, 2022•45 min•Season 5Ep. 201
We continue our chat with Sandra Gutierrez. We talk money, and the re-release of her book, Latin American Street Foods! Sandra is an expert on Latin American cuisine, a journalist, and a food historian. Her work has been widely published in magazines and in newspapers across the country. Links below to her PBS show, The New Southern Latino Table, and to the Huffington Post article mentioned in the episode. Her book, The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes that Bring Together the Bold and Beloved ...
Sep 04, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 200
Sandra Gutierrez chats with us this week about gaining the confidence to write cookbooks and never giving up. She also tells us about her recovery from a broken neck and not knowing if she would live through surgery or ever be able to move again. Sandra is an expert on Latin American cuisine, a journalist, and a food historian. Her work has been widely published in magazines and in newspapers across the country. Her book, The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes that Bring Together the Bold and Be...
Aug 28, 2022•41 min•Season 5Ep. 199
Debra Freeman is back with us to talk about her latest adventures! She has a fantastic new article out on Eater: Freedom, Finances and Fried Chicken, and a delicious new podcast on the Whetstone Radio Collective, Setting the Table. Debra has written for Plate Magazine, Epicurious, Garden and Gun, Pit Magazine, Gravy, Southern Grit Magazine, and Gastro Obscura, has had her work featured in Huffington Post and The New York Times, and has done cultural commentary for BBC Radio and other internation...
Aug 21, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 198
We’re starting our 5th year, and our 200th episode is right around the corner! Where has the time gone? As we briefly reflect on our last 4 years of chatting with fascinating women, we’ve concluded that attitude and resilience are everything. Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older wo...
Aug 18, 2022•10 min•Season 5Ep. 197
Shari Ulrich is with us this week to chat with Denise about old times in San Rafael and her life in music. Shari is a musician, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter. In 2014 Shari was awarded the Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year. Her newest release and 9th solo album, Back To Shore, was produced by daughter and shining prize, Julia Graff. Her music is amazing, check it out at the links below! Shari’s links: Website: https://www.shariulrich.co...
Aug 14, 2022•54 min•Season 4Ep. 196
Cynthia Graubart and Denise talk about how showing up prepared and doing a great job opens up a world of opportunities. Cynthia is an award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and culinary television producer. She’s a James Beard Award Winner and an MFK Fischer Award Winner. Cynthia and Virginia Willis are co-founders of Culinary Media Training. They provide culinary professionals with the skills and confidence needed to work effectively in today’s digital environment. CYNTHIA’S LINKS Inst...
Aug 07, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 195
Chef Deborah VanTrece is with us this week to talk about her new cookbook, The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors. Deborah is an award-winning restaurant chef and owner who is heavily influenced by her travels as a flight attendant in her first career. Read and watch more about her at the links below. DEBORAH’S LINKS Buy The Twisted Soul Cookbook: https://twisted-soul-cookhouse-and-pours.myshopify.com/products/the-twisted-soul-cookbook Restaurant website: https://www.twi...
Jul 31, 2022•36 min•Ep. 194
Money coach Mikelann Valterra is with us this week to talk about overcoming financial anxiety and money fog. Among the many things she covers are learning how to discern your needs from your wants to bring you deeper satisfaction (and saving resources while lowering your financial stress), and considering the (little known) brain benefits of tracking your money and why this calms the brain and relieves anxiety. Mikelann is an author, keynote speaker and money coach who helps women transform thei...
Jul 24, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 193
Jaden Rae is with us today to discuss microdosing, mushrooms, and growing your roots deep. Jaden is the publisher of Steamy Kitchen, one of the earliest and most successful food blogs, with over half a million unique users per month. She’s authored The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook, Steamy Kitchen’s Healthy Asian Favorites, and her newest, Microdosing Guide and Journal. Jaden askes listeners what sparks our curiosity, what ignites the fire in our hearts and souls, and what sustains that fire? We learn...
Jul 17, 2022•52 min•Ep. 192
We’re catching up with fitness and media coach Lori Corbin to see what she’s up to these days. We last talked with her in February 2021 when she launched The Malibu Studio, where she and her team create videos for tv, websites, podcasts, e-learning courses, speaker reels and apps. They offer media training, set design, and video production (see more at the link below). So much has happened since then, it seems like ages ago! Lori has been using her decades in fitness and media to start a shiny n...
Jul 10, 2022•46 min•Season 4Ep. 191
Aliza Green is back with us this week to continue talking about her career in the world of food. Get Aliza’s Salmone in Saor allla Veneziana recipe below! Aliza’s links: Website: https://alizagreen.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aliza.green LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alizagreen/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chefalizagreen/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/chefalizagreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRERAR_3YZedWqmEJ1Jk0GA Books: https://www.amazon.com/Aliza-Gr...
Jul 03, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 190
Aliza Green is with us this week to long and varied career in the food world. Aliza has been a pioneering chef, a culinary tour leader, and the author of fifteen cookbooks including Making Artisan Pasta, which made the Cooking Light’s Top 100 Cookbooks of the Last 25 Years list. Her career took off in the 1980s as Executive Chef at Ristorante DiLullo, where she earned a prestigious four-star rating. She was later inducted into the Philadelphia Culinary of Fame, which sited her as one of the ten ...
Jun 26, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 189
Nancie McDermott is back with us this week to continue our talk about facing uncomfortable truths, how white ignorance serves evil, and how we need to shut up, listen and learn! Start by watching “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” on your local PBS station. https://www.pbs.org/show/reconstruction-america-after-civil-war/ Excerpted from Nancie’s Anti-Racism Facebook page: “I'm Nancie McDermott, a white woman born and raised in North Carolina. I started this group as a place to look at ...
Jun 19, 2022•47 min•Season 4Ep. 188
Our guest this week is Debra Freeman. Debra has written for outlets such as Plate Magazine, Epicurious, Garden and Gun, Pit Magazine, Gravy, Southern Grit Magazine, and Gastro Obscura, has had her work featured in Huffington Post and The New York Times, and has done cultural commentary for BBC Radio and other international outlets. Freeman writes about the intersection of race, culture, and food. Read Why Yellow Cake is so Important to Black Celebrations, along with some other pieces by Debra (l...
Jun 05, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 186
