Tip from the hip. Don't eat quinoa just before recording a podcast episode.

Welcome to Food for Thought. The podcast all about living compassionately,

healthfully and sustainably with joy and abundance. My name is Colleen Patrick

Goodrow. I'm your host. You can learn more about who I am and what I do by visiting my website

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Just go to joyfulvegan.com slash donate or patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Goodrow

and choose the level that's right for you. Thank you so much in advance. Today's topic is

how to eat like a vegan Italian. How to eat like an Italian vegan style, whether you're in Italy

or not. Basically we're going to talk about the food rules in Italian that are taken very seriously.

Eating quinoa before a podcast episode is not one of them. Just spoiler. Hi everybody. Welcome

to Food for Thought. I hope you're doing fabulously well. I am recording this episode.

Well I'm recording this episode in the eighth week of healing from my fractured ankle. I think

by the time you hear this I'm not sure where I'll be and we are leaving in just a few days for our

joyful vegan trips to Italy. We are running our trip to Tuscany and our trip to Northern Italy.

Our effective communication advocacy workshop was last week and that was a huge hit. I look

forward to hosting more online workshops like this one. So please let me know what you're looking

for from me. Half of the 50 people who registered and this was a last minute workshop.

This is clearly a topic people are interested in. They knew they were going to be their

live and so the intention always was for the video presentations to be replayed either as a video

or you can even download it as audio and then be able to offer it to you. So it is up at

joyfulvegan.com. If you're interested in experiencing three hours of video presentations and

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