Melissa D’Arabian – The Gift of Food

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Our food series is ramping up with beloved celebrity chef, best-selling author, and mom of four, Melissa D’Arabian. Melissa was launched into the world of celebrity chef-dom by winning season 5 of “The Next Food Network Star” and started her first show, Ten Dollar Dinners. From there Melissa has gone on to write cookbooks, weekly columns, host webshows for the Food Network and so much more. Melissa is driven to show people that the preparing of food for others shouldn’t be a performance, but should be about hospitality, intimacy and connection. She that time when Tyler Florence told her she was pretty while simultaneously dissing one of her cooking tips, and as only a chef can, she declares that Jen is “juicy and amazing.” Tied into her mission of teaching hospitality and community around the table , Melissa’s faith and gratefulness for God’s gift of food is at the core of all of her culinary endeavors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to For the Love Podcast with the best-selling author, Jen Hatmaker.
0:07.0	Come on in and join us for a chat with Jen and friends about all the things we love.
0:12.0	Now here's Jen.
0:18.0	Hey guys, it's me Jen.
0:20.0	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast.
0:22.0	Super glad to have you this week.
0:24.0	So we are in the middle of a really cool series that I'm loving called For the Love of Food.
0:30.0	And I think what if you've been listening along, you're figuring out, it's not just about food.
0:34.0	So you don't have to be a foodie, you don't have to be a cuck, you don't have to be a chef to find any of this interesting.
0:39.0	Because sort of embedded in the discussion on food is also hospitality and worth and identity and family and neighbors.
0:49.0	There's just so much around the table.
0:51.0	So I think this is a spiritual practice and it's an emotional practice and it's a physical practice.
0:58.0	And so today's guest is going to hit all those notes in a dozen ways.
1:04.0	This is a really fascinating conversation that I can't wait for you to listen in.
1:07.0	So my guest today is celebrity chef, television host, New York Times best-selling author, Mama 4, Melissa Di Arabian.
1:18.0	Oh, she's so great, you guys.
1:20.0	So Melissa's so interesting.
1:22.0	She's got a real great background.
1:24.0	She's got an MBA from Georgetown.
1:26.0	And so she was in corporate finance and strategy before moving into cooking.
1:31.0	So she's really interesting and she's got a lot of nuance to her experience and to her careers.
1:38.0	And so she left that world and became a stay-home mom because you guys four daughters in two and a half years.
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