Welcome to Our Henhouse.

This is Marianne Sullivan, and this is Jasmine Singer.

And this week, Jasmine has such a fun interview to share.

Oh, my God.

I'm so glad we did this.

We don't really do interviews about food very often,

but when we heard about Max Lamano, we knew we had to have a chat. He is a chef and a cookbook author,

and his specialty is not just veganism, it's low waste. And basically, he has figured out how to cook

all the parts of the veggies and fruits that you usually throw away.

Yeah, we're talking banana peels, coffee grounds.

It was so funny.

Like, we both got this pitch in.

We were like, yeah.

Yeah, I know.

Immediately we're like, it's so up my alley.

I just, like, what is it that, you know, is about some people like me that I just

love the idea of using everything that I would otherwise throw away. I mean, maybe that's why

all of my bookshelves are so crowded and I have too much stuff in my house because I can't

throw anything away. You know, I recently got rid of, like, the vast majority of my books and got them on audio. The ones, anyway, the ones I wanted to read. I felt like it was good activism to just, like, get rid of a lot of my vegan books and a lot of my cookbooks and donate them. So, I don't know. Yeah, you're my idol. I can't do it, though. I have all these cookbooks.

I never use them.

I like, I don't even really cook.

And I look at them and I think, okay, I'm going to weave them. And I look at them on. I'm like, no, I want to keep that. No, I want to keep that. No, I want to keep that. It's an illness. A little bit, but you know, there are worse illnesses you can have.

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