Cooking, Kids, and Keeping it Simple | Michelle Tam

Do The Thing, with Whole30's Melissa Urban

Melissa Urban

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Tam (she/her) is the creator of the Saveur Award winning food blog Nom Nom Paleo. After leaving her job as a night shift pharmacist to found her blog, Michelle went on to author two New York Times best-selling cookbooks and produced a Webby-award winning cooking app with her husband, Henry Fong. She’s also been a friend since 2009, when Paleo meant eating like a caveman and making your own mayo was a regular occurrence. Today, we’ll talk about how she got into Paleo and her time on the night shift, the rise of Paleo desserts (and other ways Paleo has evolved since the early days), her secret weapon for flavorful cooking, how she got her stubborn 3-year-old off the mac and cheese, and what food freedom looks like for her kids now that they’re older.Continue the conversation with me @melissa_hartwig on Instagram. If you have a question for Dear Melissa or a topic idea for the show, leave me a voicemail at (321) 209-1480. Do the Thing is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood.If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell your friends to Do the Thing!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Melissa Urban, and you're listening to Do the Thing, a
0:07.7	podcast where we explore what's been missing every time you've tried to make a change and make it stiff.
0:17.0	Today my guest is Michelle Tam, pronouns she, her.
0:21.6	She's the creator of the Severeux Award-winning food blog Nom Nome-Paleo.
0:27.0	And if you're wondering if I spent the last 15 minutes, googling, how do you pronounce
0:30.9	Severeux, You'd be right.
0:33.0	After leaving her job as a night shift pharmacist to found her blog,
0:36.6	Michelle went on to author two New York Times best-selling cookbooks
0:39.9	and produced a Webby award-winning cooking app
0:42.2	with her husband, Henry Fong.
0:44.0	She's also been a good friend of mine since 2009
0:48.0	when Palio meant eating like a caveman and making your own meow was a regular occurrence.
0:53.0	Today we'll talk about how she got into paleo and her time on the night shift.
0:58.0	The rise of paleo desserts and other ways paleo has evolved since the early days.
1:03.2	Her secret weapon for flavorful cooking,
1:05.8	how she got a stubborn three-year-old off the mac and cheese,
1:09.0	and what food freedom looks like for her kids now that they're older.
1:13.0	Okay, Michelle Tam, Nom Palio, welcome to do the thing.
1:18.0	I'm so excited to be here and I'm so excited to talk to you.
1:21.0	Thank you, I'm excited to talk to you too. The last time I saw you was at Expo West when you were off doing your like
1:26.7	reporting thing and your blogging thing and you were talking to all these fancy brands and I feel like you ran
1:31.0	around during that show as much as I did. I just ran around and I feel like you ran around during that show as much as I did.
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