Food

Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board

Christina Pirello shares healthy, fresh Italian and Mediterranean recipes as well as her brassy, insightful approach to liver, kidney and heart health and diabetes prevention. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983, Christina turned to a macrobiotic diet of whole grains and vegetables to aid in her recovery, launching the 20-plus year run of her Emmy Award-winning series Christina Cooks.

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

26m 46s

Chestnuts have been a food source for thousands of years. They can be eaten raw, roasted, ground into flour, or mixed into pastries. In times of famine in Western Europe, it was the chestnut and its flour that saved many from starvation. Christina travels to the town of Pratalecchia in Tuscany that has produced chestnuts for centuries, where she harvests and cooks with this amazing ancient food.

Episodes

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    Cuz There Is No Planet B, Cuz

    S5 E501 - 26m 46s

    We live in changing times. Most scientists agree that our planet is changing…and not for the better. Climate change seems like an abstract thing we can’t get our heads around. Try this; think of it as pollution. So what can we do? Can our food choices make an impact? Christina shows how choosing more plants and reducing our animal food intake is our best shot at making a difference for better.

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