How Lack of Cooking Is Sabotaging Our Health and Making Us Sicker Than Ever with Kimbal Musk

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, AquaTru, and Lumebox. With our busy modern lives, we often rely on quick and often processed foods while on the run. However, we know there are enormous health benefits when we cook at home and together. Today’s guest is here to share his mission of bringing cooking back into the kitchen with our loved ones. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Kimbal Musk to discuss his new cookbook. Kimbal shares his journey in cooking and what ultimately led him to open his restaurant. He also discusses why society has moved away from cooking at home and how we can bring healthy cooking back into our homes. Additionally, he shares why he became passionate about the regenerative movement and the formidable experiences in his life that shaped how he looks at preparing and cooking for his community. Kimbal Musk is a South African-born entrepreneur, philanthropist, and restaurateur. In the early 2000s, Kimbal Musk shifted his focus to the culinary world and embarked on a mission to promote sustainable and locally sourced food. He founded The Kitchen, a family of restaurants prioritizing farm-to-table practices and aiming to impact the food system positively. He co-founded Big Green, a non-profit organization that builds outdoor learning gardens in schools to teach children about the importance of fresh, healthy food. In this episode, Dhru and Kimbal dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The power of community (1:00 / 1:00) Challenges to cooking at home (3:47 / 3:47) Kimbal’s cooking journey after September 11th (8:26 / 5:34) Kimbal’s experience with food as a child (15:05 / 12:10) How Kimbal’s restaurant in Boulder came about (18:45 /15:50) The journey to create the cookbook (25:40 / 22:50) Growing up during the Apartheid in South Africa (30:00 / 25:00) Connecting to the animal you plan to eat (35:10 / 30:30) Kimbal’s favorite recipes (38:35 / 33:37) Regenerative movement and Kimbal’s passion for it (41:15 / 36:18) Innovation tips for cooking at home (48:41 / 43:43) What Kimbal has changed his mind about (53:50 / 49:20) Final Thoughts (58:55 / 53:50) Also mentioned in this episode: The Kitchen Cookbook The Kitchen Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRUP. AquaTru is a countertop reverse osmosis purifier with a four-stage filtration system that removes 15x more contaminants than the bestselling water filters out there. Go to dhrupurohit.com/filter/ and get $100 off when you try AquaTru for yourself. Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-registered portable Red Light device! That's over 50% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Gimbal, welcome to the podcast, pleasure to have you here.
0:02.6	Thank you for having me.
0:03.5	You have a new cookbook.
0:04.5	We're going to talk all things food and why it's so important and maybe share some of your
0:09.7	favorite recipes.
0:10.8	That's great, thank you so much, yeah, I'm excited to be here. Well when we were chit chatting a little bit I think a reminder for individuals is that yes you have a cookbook but eating and cooking together and one of your goals is to have people have a better relationship with food, right?
0:24.8	And actually taking it into their own homes, into their own hands, and making it fun and accessible.
0:30.4	You've done that for you.
0:31.4	Yeah, being with your cooking with you, family and friends, you know, you're such a great longevity guide for folks out there. It's just just having relationships, you know, not being lonely. Loneliness is really something that truly does kill and one of the most powerful things we can do is just build up, build relationships with those close to us, our friends, our family, and also to share it with our
0:53.8	with a broader community as well. What do you look at when you look at the landscape
0:57.4	right now, right? It seems like we're doing less and less of that as a nation.
1:02.1	Exactly. What's getting in the way of that as a nation. Exactly.
1:03.2	What's getting in the way of that?
1:04.4	Well, that's why I wanted to write the cookbook.
1:06.6	You know, the kitchen has been Boulder's community bistro
1:09.6	for 20 years, it's our 20th anniversary,
1:11.7	it's another reason for doing it.
1:13.6	Congratulations.
1:14.2	Thank you so much.
1:15.1	But the other reason was I just watched with, especially with COVID
1:19.8	where we were really, frankly, just staying in our basements and being up by ourselves.
1:25.9	Social media has gotten to, you know, really a toxic place and so it has its value but generally
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dhru Purohit, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dhru Purohit and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.