jess damuck is a salad freak and a health nut and she's got the books to prove it!

So Into That

Caro Chambers

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Dinner party tips. Healthy meals with Trader Joe’s ingredients. Stories involving Martha Stewart, Sufjan Stevens, and Sia?

This conversation with Jess Damuck has all of the above and more, and I’m bringing it to you a day after the launch of her gorgeous new book, Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook.

If you’ve seen Salad Freak, you know how beautiful Jess’ work is. Which makes sense considering she spent years working directly with – and learning from – Martha Stewart.

Amazingly, Jess wrote not one but two cookbooks in the past year. And when we caught up in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, we talked about both of them, plus:

* Making 47 plaster sculptures for Sia (really!)

* What she learned working for Martha Stewart and Bon Appétit

* Minimizing the number of dishes we use in meals

* Embracing living in L.A. and hosting artists and entertainers

* Why “health” can be a loaded word and what it means to her

* The tofu stir fry she cooks when she doesn’t feel like cooking

Links:

* Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook

* Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession

* Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends (Benny Blanco book out April 2024)

* Jess’ Instagram

* Smoked soy sauce

* Kettle Soba Cha buckwheat tea

* High Maintenance, the HBO show Jess’ partner Ben created and starred in

* Dave, the FX show Ben directed

* Ram Dass’ spiritual sanctuary in Maui

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome back to So Into That. This is Caroline Chambers, your host, and
0:06.2	So Into That is a podcast where I get to chat with really cool people about the
0:10.3	things that we are really into right now.
0:12.5	Today's guest, Rocks, Jess Damick is here.
0:16.4	She is the author of Salad Freak,
0:19.6	which if you have ever been in any sort of cool store or enjoy cooking even a little bit.
0:26.5	You've probably seen her cookbook.
0:28.2	She just crushed it with that book.
0:30.9	It did so well and yesterday March 26th her newest book was
0:37.8	born into the world. Health Nut is a feel good cookbook and it's kind of inspired by like how people used to eat in
0:48.7	the 70s and like California kind of hippieish eating but just like really flavorful helpful food
0:56.1	aka I mean it's not hippieish but she kind of describes it that way which is why I said that but
1:01.6	it a return to whole food eating you know all the ingredients that we know we're supposed to be eating the nuts and the legumes and the
1:09.8	grains all the things we know we're supposed to be eating, but get away from because of convenience.
1:16.5	That is really what the focus of this cookbook is.
1:19.8	It's really gorgeous.
1:21.0	Jess and I met up and recorded this episode when I was down in LA a couple weeks ago.
1:25.0	If you are looking for some just great healthful nourishing delicious recipes, I 10 out of 10 recommend giving this cookbook a shot.
1:34.8	Jess was so so much fun to hang out with and she's just like living her best LA life.
1:39.6	She and her partner just moved from New York.
1:41.6	They had like a big life change and she's just making the most of it.
1:44.5	She's exploring artistic paths that she like hasn't had the opportunity to in a long time and she's just kind of like living this great fulfilled life and she was really really fun to talk to.
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