Favorite Food: For the Love of Lentils
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2010
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Our conversation today revolves around lentils, an appropriate food to celebrate in the beginning of this new year, as they are traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve in many cultures around the world to symbolize wealth, prosperity, and abundance in the coming year. In this episode, we discuss different types of lentils, how to cook them, some favorite simple recipes, and nutrition information, interspersed with information about our compassionate business partners: Earth Balance and Field Roast. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.8 | I founded Compassionate compassionate cooks to empower people |
| 0:24.9 | to make informed food choices and to debunk myths |
| 0:28.1 | about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:30.8 | You can learn more about who we are and what we do by visiting our website |
| 0:34.6 | compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi everyone, happy new year. It's the beginning of 2010 and we've just entered the fifth year of this podcast or I suppose in |
| 0:46.2 | March it would be officially entering the fifth year of this podcast but we're |
| 0:50.9 | pretty close. Before we get started on today's topic, let's first acknowledge |
| 0:55.1 | our fabulous listener sponsors and then I have just a couple short announcements and then we'll talk about |
| 1:00.4 | lentils, okay? Very exciting stuff, Lentils. Our sponsors today are |
| 1:05.8 | Fred and Donna Branaman, and I'm actually going to see them tonight. It is pure coincidence |
| 1:11.9 | that they're sponsoring today's podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | Basically, Fred and Donna came to my cooking class a couple years ago. |
| 1:20.0 | And if I remember this correctly, I know Fred listens to the podcast, so I don't know if he remembers this differently than I do, but I remember that I think Donna bought Fred a gift certificate because Fred wanted to learn to cook more healthfully and she got him |
| 1:35.1 | a gift certificate for one of the cooking classes and then if I remember correctly Donna at |
| 1:40.4 | the last minute last week or so before the class wanted to come as well and so she |
| 1:45.1 | signed up herself. So the two of them came to a cooking class and I believe that was |
| 1:49.4 | two years ago at this point and they came to several cooking classes since then and it's |
| 1:57.6 | really been amazing because I've actually watched them go through their own |
| 2:02.2 | transformation I mean I say this all the time that I get to see them go through their own transformation. |
| 2:03.2 | I mean, I say this all the time |
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