Hi everyone and welcome to the nutrition diva podcast. I'm your host

Monica Reinagle and on this week's show we have a special guest.

Actually we have two special guests. Our first

guest is my colleague Kara Rhoda. Kara is the host of QDT's new clever

Cookster podcast. It's a fun fast-paced look at what's hot in the world of food and

cooking. And our second guest is Celebrity Chef Scott Leibfried. Now as some of you may know,

I've spent the last two years working closely with Scott to develop the menu for a brand new kind of casual restaurant.

Our goal was to create a place that had food so good you'd want to eat it every day and so good for you

that you actually could and folks I think we nailed it the restaurant is called

Reviver and the first opened in May near Columbus Circle in New York City.

Now I know I learned an enormous amount working with Scott over the last two years

and in today's show, Kara talks to Scott about the challenges of creating great tasting dishes that are also balanced and nutritious, including some tips you can put to use in your own kitchen.

Thanks for being here today Scott. So Scott is now the restaurateur behind Reviver, a New York joint dedicated to

balanced, nutritious, clean food.

So today he's joining us to talk about making

delicious food healthy.

Your job as a chef involves creating balanced healthy

whole food takes on familiar recipes

that people already know and love.

What are some tricks for how you do that?

Well, we took a little bit of a different approach where most competitors and most people would actually say,

well, how do we make a chicken parmesan healthy how do we make a

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