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The Rich Roll Podcast

Rodman Machado On Cooking As Nutritional Art

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.713.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2012

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast we sit down with Rodman Machado– Executive Chef at the Garden Cafe at Common Ground in Kilauea, Hawaii — to talk food as medicine; cooking as nutritional art; plant-based superfoods; preventing & healing diabetes and other diseases with plants; and optimizing overall wellness. If you have been enjoying the show, we would greatly appreciate it if you could take a quick moment to leave a comment on the iTunes page for the podcast. Thanks for listening – we are beyond grateful for the early response. SHOW NOTES * 10 Uncommon “Superfoods” from the World of Ultra-Endurance * Papain Superfood: How Green Papaya Enzymes Help Digestion * MindBodyGreen: 25 Reasons Why Tumeric Can Heal You * Huffington Post: How To Massage Kale: Why a Rubdown Helps This Leafy Green * Natural News: Noni Fruit Superfood Thanks for stopping by. Thoughts? Let me know what you think in the comments section below. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode five of the podcast. It's been a great last week. Thank you so much

0:19.2

for your support. We came out of the gate really strong. There's been such an amazing

0:25.3

early response to the show and what we're doing and we're really, really proud and grateful

0:31.9

to have the audience that we have and it really validates this message of health that we're

0:36.9

trying to put out there, Julie and I together. So, we're welcoming you back for another

0:43.5

addition. We're in week two of the podcast and already episode five. We're loving it.

0:48.2

It's been really, really fun. Again, we're out here at Common Ground,

0:53.0

50-acre organic farm on the North Shore of Kauai, where Julie and I and our family are living

0:59.1

in a yurt village and experimenting with modes of sustainable lifestyle and learning more about

1:07.4

food and how food is grown and in a sort of farm to plate model. We thought that it would

1:15.2

make a lot of sense and would be great to have the marvelous Rodman Machado on the show. Rodman

1:22.4

is the executive chef here at Common Ground at Garden Cafe. He is an artist with food. He knows a

1:29.3

lot about not just food and nutrition but organic farming and harvesting the best plants

1:38.4

to nourish our bodies. He's a really cool guy. He's a fascinating guy.

1:50.0

So, I'm here today again with Julie. Hi, everyone. She's back.

1:54.4

Hello, everybody. The permanent co-host and Rodman, man, how you doing, dude?

1:58.9

I'm doing great. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

2:01.0

Thanks for taking time out of your hectic, crazy, busy schedule.

2:06.0

I saw fun. It's a creative process on a daily basis with the team and seeing what we're going to do

2:14.8

and what values are we going to put into the specials and it's just every day something you hear.

2:21.3

Yeah, if you were to take a peek into the kitchen where Rodman's working, it's a pretty small

2:26.7

kitchen that is turning out an unbelievable amount of food for the demand at this restaurant,

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