Building A Nourishing Asian Kitchen

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sophia Nguyen Eng was in the tech world when she decided to make a dramatic shift. She left her high-paying corporate job, exchanged it for a homestead with chickens and sheep, and began cooking real food for her family. The next thing she knew, she was working on "The Nourishing Asian Kitchen" cookbook in an attempt to preserve the rich culinary traditions of Vietnam, China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries.

Today, she tells us what drove her shift. She talks about her family's health concerns (like her husband's eczema or her mother's heart issues), where she began to overhaul her kitchen (hint: in the spices, sauces, and oils in the cabinets) and how we can make similar shifts for health and healing. She also describes which recipes are the easiest to attempt from her cookbook for the Asian cooking novice and why eating out at Asian restaurants can be problematic.

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0:00.0	From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for
0:10.4	Wise Traditions in Food, farming, and the healing arts.
0:14.0	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
0:19.9	And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrada Gore.
0:27.0	Hey, Hilda here.
0:30.0	Why would a successful businesswoman leave her day job in the tech industry to start cooking
0:35.5	from scratch, buying hens and later sheep and goats, start a homestead, and write a cookbook? This is episode 469 and our guest today is Sophia Nguyen
0:46.4	Ang. Sophia is the author of the Nourishing Asian Kitchen and the host of the
0:51.2	Call to Farms podcast. Today she tells the host of the Call to Farms podcast.
0:53.0	Today she tells the story behind the book and the podcast
0:56.0	and this completely different lifestyle shift that she made.
1:00.0	She covers her family's health issues
1:02.0	and how the work of Sally Fallon Morel inspired her to put down on paper her own cultural culinary traditions.
1:10.0	She also gets specific about favorite childhood dishes, which recipe to try out in her book if you want to give Asian cooking a crack,
1:17.0	where we might want to start making shifts in our own kitchens toward real food, and why eating out for Asian food may not be the best way to go.
1:26.0	Before we get into the conversation, do you ever wonder about the safety of raw milk
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1:53.5	You'll also find insights on the politics and economics of the dairy industry.
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