Food & Mental Health

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this week we’re devoting the entire hour to personal stories about how food and the food industry can impact our mental health. Restaurateur David McMillan, of Joe Beef in Montreal, talks candidly about his challenge with sobriety in the restaurant world and how it changed the way his restaurants function. Playwright and screenwriter Stephanie Covington Armstrong, author of Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, tells us her powerful story about eating disorders and the dissonance it has as a black woman. And, body image activist Virgie Tovar talks about the mental health implications of fatphobia, fat discrimination, and the diet culture; her latest book is You Have the Right to Remain Fat.

If you are in need of mental health resources or help, see the links on our page splendidtable.org/mentalhealth.

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May 17, 2019

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0:00.0	In the Premier League, everyone pushes their hardest to win. And now it's your turn. With their EPL fantasy challenge, Coca-Cola are giving you a chance to win big by beating the best. All you have to do is build a team based on rules set by an icon. And to help you on your way, I've got a tip to help you build your team. Make sure you keep an eye on fixtures. Who are the players up against next? Sometimes it's not about form.
0:21.7	Like there are some players that, for whatever reason, always play well against certain teams.
0:27.0	To do your research. To get involved in the EPL Fantasy Challenge, all you've got to do is grab
0:31.8	a Coke and scan the code on the pack. Just by playing, you get a chance to win Coke swag or
0:36.6	vouchers. But if you beat the icon
0:38.9	who set the rules, you could win vintage Coca-Cola jerseys, Premier League tickets, and more. So go
0:45.0	ahead and get involved. Grab a Coke, drink it in. Our common nature is a musical journey with
0:52.7	Yo-Yo Ma and me, Ana Gonzalez, through this complicated country.
0:57.1	We go into caves, onto boats, and up mountain trails to meet people, hear their stories, their poetry, and of course, play some music.
1:06.4	All to reconnect to nature and get closer to the things we're missing.
1:12.9	Listen to Our Common Nature from WNYC, wherever you get podcasts.
1:21.7	I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM, the show for curious cooks and eaters.
1:34.3	May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and our colleagues in American Public Media have created call to mind, an initiative
1:45.1	to help foster new conversations about mental health. When they talked with us about doing
1:50.0	an episode on mental health issues and food, I'll be honest, I wasn't sure about it. I was
1:56.9	afraid I'd say something wrong or I just don't want to offend anyone living with a mental
2:03.3	illness or just make things worse, you know? And then I realized something. And that's, if we were
2:12.8	just avoiding the conversation because it'd be hard or frankly because I was afraid of talking about it.
2:20.4	We'd just be part of the problem.
2:22.5	We'd be helping to keep these issues in the dark.
2:26.4	So here we are with this episode.
2:28.7	We tried to put it together with humility.
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