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Hi everyone, it's Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 15 of yoga land.

Today my guest is chef and nutritionist Rebecca Katz. Up until now the podcast has

focused solely on the yoga practice and teaching, but it's always been my intention

to expand that scope just a little bit and talk about things that

Yogis care about. When you do yoga I think it's safe to say that you become very

mindful of what you put inside your body and how you feel when you eat.

So with that in mind I wanted to bring Rebecca on the show.

I was introduced to Rebecca's work quite honestly through unfortunate circumstances.

In September of 2014, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In fact, right about the time this podcast will air, I'll be celebrating my two-year anniversary since being diagnosed.

And I will put links to some of my past essays about my experience with cancer on the show notes page if you want to learn more about that.

But for now, we will focus on the positive.

When I was diagnosed, a friend of mine sent me one of Rebecca's cookbooks. It's called the

cancer fighting kitchen and it is wonderful. It's geared very much toward

people who are undergoing chemotherapy and even though I didn't have to go through

chemotherapy the book is still now a staple in my family's life. I've been cooking

a long time I grew up in a family where food was very much the focal point and I learned to cook from my mother who is a great cook and yet this cookbook kind of brought everything together for me. She is just so skillful at making delicious recipes really

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