004: Fermentation and Other Kitchen DIY with Anne-Marie Bonneau of ZeroWasteChef.com
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Anne-Marie grew up learning the DIY mentality from her father. She now puts it to use in the kitchen making all her food from scratch, from sourdough to kombucha and everything in between. She also hosts webinars to empower others to do the same. In this fun episode we discuss talking the talk and walking the walk in regards to sustainable living.
What is one question your younger self would ask you?
- How can I get to where you are sooner? How can I start now?
Tip for those hoping to spread their knowledge within the community.
- Attend lectures, learn something new and meet new people
Environmental Resource
Books
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
- The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
by Dan Barber
- The Story of Stuff
by Annie Leonard
- Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Bufford
- The Art of Fermentation
by Sandor Katz
Interview Links
- ZeroWasteChef.com (including webinar calendar)
- Fermentation vs. Canning
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| 0:00.0 | A Sustainable Mind, Episode 4. |
| 0:05.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind podcast, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental changemakers of tomorrow. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm your host, Marjor Alexander. |
| 0:23.8 | Today, I am very happy to welcome to the show, Anne-Marie Bonnell. |
| 0:28.8 | Anne-Marie is a self-taught cooking extraordinaire, making all of her own food from scratch, |
| 0:34.3 | from sourdough starters to kombucha. She writes a fantastic blog called Zero Way |
| 0:39.4 | Chef, where she empowers everyday people to do the same. Hi, Anne-Marie. Hi, Marjorie. |
| 0:44.8 | How are you doing this morning? Oh, I'm well, thanks. How are you? Excellent. Okay, so I want |
| 0:50.9 | to start from the beginning. A lot of individuals who live this sustainable lifestyle |
| 0:56.8 | actually didn't start out that way. So I want you to talk a little bit about your childhood |
| 1:01.7 | and how eco-friendly practices might have figured into your life growing up or not. |
| 1:09.3 | Okay. Well, we weren't eco-friendly, I don't think. |
| 1:15.4 | However, my dad, my dad is the cheapest man alive. |
| 1:21.7 | And so I think because of that, we probably did do some eco-thing things, you know, to save money. |
| 1:29.2 | Also, growing up, I grew, well, I was born in 68, so I grew up in the 70s. |
| 1:33.9 | I mean, consumerism wasn't rampant like it is now. |
| 1:37.4 | Right. |
| 1:38.0 | You know, it wasn't, I mean, it was still there, but it's, you know, it's totally out of control now. |
| 1:43.8 | So, but there is one thing, I think, that had a big effect on me. |
| 1:48.5 | We had a giant pool. |
| 1:50.5 | This was in Canada. |
| 1:51.7 | And it cost a fortune to heat it. |
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