Life After Cheese
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2007
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
If you have ever said or thought that you could "never give up cheese," this episode is for you. In it, I explore our irrational attachment to this stuff and suggest that it is a combination of factors that foster our addiction to cheese. I suggest that our desire for it is really a desire for something familiar. I suggest that it acts as a trigger for a nostalgic memory. I suggest that we use it to bring us comfort. I also suggest that it may be as simple as craving fat or salt. And I suggest that all of these things can be satisfied without cheese. I also recommend some good non-dairy cheeses as well as ways to make some of your favorite dishes without any cheese at all - dairy or non-dairy. The bottom line is: NEVER SAY NEVER. Just be willing to be open. You'll find that there is indeed life without cheese. First, we have to stop giving it so much power.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be? Welcome to Food for Thought. This is Colleen with Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:27.0 | I founded Compassionate Cooks to empower people, to make informed food choices, and to debunk |
| 0:32.3 | myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:35.1 | I do this in a number of ways through cooking classes, an online cookbook, lectures and workshops, |
| 0:40.4 | articles and essays, this podcast, and a cooking DVD. You can learn more about who |
| 0:45.2 | we are and what we do by visiting our website, www. Compassionate cooks.com. |
| 0:51.3 | Hi everybody, I hope you're all doing very well. I was on a plane this past week and I was thrilled to take some time to answer a bunch of your emails. I find that's actually the one time I'm completely still and able to answer mail but I still have |
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