Hi, I'm Lale Arakoglii, and this is Women Who Travel. Today, in the second installment of our series about food, gardening, and wellness, I'm talking to Sophia Roe, an activist, chef, and host of the Travel and Food Show, Counterspace, which just released its second season.

One of the themes of her show is about how care and attention to a healthy diet

and consuming local produce is so much better in countries outside of the US.

Sophia's tone is often gloriously polemical, critical and lively.

And as a European, who has family in the Mediterranean, I too have had to adapt to an American lifestyle

where the priority is the workplace over the kitchen.

Sophia points to capitalism as the culprit.

In a lot of cities in the United States, it's like the amount of young people that I speak to that are like, yeah, I have no idea how to cook.

I don't know anything.

But like, I have money.

They're so wiped that they don't even cook anymore.

They just eat out, right?

So before you know it, you have cultural erasure by proxy of productivity.

That's how I feel about it.

It's like, let's just completely eradicate an entire generation's ability to know how to feed themselves.

You know, you were a chef and a cook, and now you're a TV host of a food and travel show.

What has that learning process been like for you and becoming a host?

Super fun.

You know, I really feel like it was meant to be doing this job.

And I think that some people might feel, like, weird about saying that or, you know, I really

feel like I was designed to be on television.

I never feel more comfortable than when there's a camera around.

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