Ep 2: Ann Crile Esselstyn - I'm In! Now What Do I Do?
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Eating plant-based, especially in a firehouse, can be challenging. In this episode, Rip introduces Joe to his mom Ann Crile Esselstyn, and serves up a dose of her unbridled enthusiasm.
Thriving in her 80’s, Ann is a true force of nature and embodies the many benefits of plants. She’s learned many tricks-to-the-trade since starting this lifestyle in 1984 - hear how she keeps inspired, joyful, and motivated to experiment in the kitchen.
She shares five kitchen essentials everyone should have, how to set yourself up for success, tasty hacks for adding greens to your meals plus a dozen simple and delicious ideas on what to eat. These practical heartfelt solutions will help anyone to be brave and dive into the lifestyle, fork first!
Joe’s made progress in the kitchen too and his palate is changing. He’s working hard to keep the new foods interesting, to plan ahead, and to prepare for ‘grab and go’ situations. Can you do the same in your house?
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| 0:00.0 | In the firehouse, especially in New York City, the kitchen and cooking is probably the biggest |
| 0:10.5 | part of firehouse culture. |
| 0:13.0 | And if you're not eating what the guys are eating, it just kind of, it just has a negative |
| 0:19.3 | connotation to it among the guys. |
| 0:21.8 | And trying to adapt that and then if they make something and I have to bring in my own |
| 0:29.1 | or modify it, it becomes a little, a little stressful, a little tense. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.2 | So at firehouses, we love to share meals with each other. |
| 0:43.4 | It's very familial. |
| 0:46.2 | That's where a lot of the bonds are really forged in the kitchen and on the fire scene. |
| 0:55.2 | In Austin, Texas, the shared meal is called the wagon and it's like, hey, are you in on |
| 0:59.9 | the wagon or not? |
| 1:02.0 | Back when we went plant strong at fire station two, we were, it was a plant strong wagon. |
| 1:08.8 | And that was one of the beautiful things about it is that we would trade off, who would |
| 1:12.6 | shop for that night's dinner, lunch, breakfast, and then to make it easy, the preparation, |
| 1:22.6 | you know the saying, many hands make for light work. |
| 1:24.9 | We would all dive in, we'd chop, we'd cut, we'd prep, and we'd make this amazing dinner. |
| 1:30.0 | We would have a contest to see who could make the best fantastic dinner at the most economical |
| 1:36.4 | price. |
| 1:38.0 | We got it down to, you know, for 12 bucks, we could feed five firefighters with leftovers |
| 1:44.6 | and make a sensational meal. |
| 1:46.1 | So one of the issues that Joe is having at his firehouse is that he is a standalone plant |
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