In this episode, Gastronomica Co-Chair Dan Bender speaks with Teresa Politano about her personal essay, “Don’t Forget the Tomatoes for My Funeral,” a finalist in the upcoming 2022 International Association of Culinary Professionals Food Writing Awards. Drawing together stories of grief and comfort through a range of care packages –...

Hello friends. This week we welcome our dear friend, Mary Beth White. Mary Beth is a women's health care nurse practitioner, advanced practice holistic nurse, transpersonal nurse coach and former hospice nurse whose interest in non-traditional funerals and green burials was inspired by caring for her mom and family at...

This week we chat with Peter Shelsky, owner of Brooklyn institution, “Shelsky’s of Brooklyn: Appetizing Delicatessen.” Peter helps us better understand the Jewish mourning tradition of shiva. We talk about what shiva means. What foods people eat during the process and what it means to him to be able...

This week on Eating Disorder, Chef Paul Gerard, Crazy Legs Conti, and The Rev Spyro are talking death with Louise de Winter, a creative director for the afterlife known to many as the "Mary Poppins of Death." With a mission is to disrupt the death industry by 'doing death differently,'...