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Primary Food

by Heritage Radio Network

PRIMARY FOOD is an exploration into all the things in life that nourish our minds, bodies and souls—all the fun stuff that guides us towards the quality of the food we eat. Hosted by Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, who is currently undergoing aggressive cancer treatment and seeking the finest, and funnest, things in life.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 44: KINTSUGI

    Join Primary Food’s host DJ CherishTheLuv and guests, Maharlika and Jeepney's Nicole Ponseca, and Licensed Clinical Psychologist Jeannie Celestial to discuss work, life and surviving trauma. Dr. Celestial helps us unpack it all to get us on that healing track. Primary Food is powered by…

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  2. Episode 43: GIRL, UBE KILLIN’ IT

    Join Primary Food’s host DJ CherishTheLuv and guests, Maharlika and Jeepney's Nicole Ponseca, Cafe 86’s Ginger Lim Dimapasok, and media maven Charmaine Parcero for Filipino American History Month. They’ll discuss the non-edible things in life that nourish them, as well as share stories about…

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  3. Episode 42: ART & MUSIC & WHY

    Visual Artist Tim Okamura and Audio/Visual Artist Cecilie Beck join DJ CherishTheLuv on today's episode of Primary Food. Today, we are talking about ART & MUSIC as our primary food and WHY it is SO important, necessary and healthy to have personal creative expression in our lives. We discuss why…

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  4. Episode 41: How to Cook Up A Song

    Big News! DJ CherishTheLuv will be doing music work in an orphanage in Ecuador with Unfucktheworld in May, so in today’s episode, we’ll be talking about MUSIC as our Primary Food. We are going to find out HOW TO COOK UP A SONG and ENJOY LIFE with today’s musical guests, Haitian-born SMAX MUSIC,...

  5. Episode 40: Giving Back is Nourishing

    In today's episode of Primary Food, DJ CherishTheLuv talks about how giving back is a wonderful form of nourishment with Rebecca Weiss. Rebecca is a 46-year-old breast cancer survivor whose life changed completely when she was diagnosed as stage 3 in 2014. A journalist and corporate…

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  6. Episode 39: LIVE BREW COFFEE

    Joining DJ CherishTheLuv in the studio today is the one and only Elisabeth Cardiello founder of Caffe Unimatic with roots from Italy! In Sweden another coffee-loving nation the act of sitting for a coffee break solo or with friends is called a "fika," a primary food action that most people don't...

  7. Episode 38: HOW DID YOU GET HERE

    HRN’s very own Jennifer Leuzzi, host of Tech Bites, joins Rev & DJ CherishTheLuv in today's episode of Primary Food. Focusing on a great job as our primary food theme, we discuss Cynthia’s search for work that nourishes her soul, and the wild journey of a woman in a world full of judgment…

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  8. Episode 37: Breaking Bread NYC

    Today's episode of Primary Food combines secondary AND primary food with the themes of exploration, compassion and politics. Breaking Bread NYC's Scott Wiener, Steph Mantis and Jeff Orlick tell us about how they are bringing back humanity to NYC restaurants affected by President Donald Trump's...

  9. Episode 36: HOW TO FEED A WOMAN

    Libby Moore, Oprah Winfrey's former Chief-of-Staff joins Rev. & DJ CherishTheLuv on today's episode of Primary Food to discuss how women can and should nourish themselves on every level. A sherpa to many, super-connector, and adventurer, Libby Moore, has set off on her own quest to feed herself...

  10. Episode 35: Nourish the World with Creativity

    Joining DJ CherishTheLuv in today's episode is activist and performance artist Robert Galinsky. We are discussing how performance, creativity, coaching, and coffee nourishes the world! Galinsky is a contributing writer to The Fresh Toast, is Head Speaker Coach for TEDxTeen, TEDxFultonStreet, and...

  11. Episode 34: MUSIC FEEDS NYC

    Joining Cynthia Cherish in the studio is Dan FreeMan (C0m1x), a bassist/producer and one of the world's experts on Ableton Live and its uses in live performance. As a bassist he has performed and toured extensively on 3 continents. He has a studio in Brooklyn where he primarily produces NYC…

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  12. Episode 33: Getting Crystal Clear on Creativity

    You just never know how Music and The Arts will affect your life and fill it with all kinds of adventures! DJ CherishTheLuv brings her musical sister, DJ CrystalClear, aka Crystal Durant, into the studio to talk about how performing feeds our soul. Featuring soul and funk music from Ubiquity...

  13. Episode 32: CREATIVE WRITING AS NOURISHMENT

    Memorial Sloan Kettering's Creative Writing Program, Visible Ink, has been an important Primary Food for Cynthia Cherish Malaran. Today, we have the Visible Ink Team in the studio to tell us all about the importance of creative writing as a source of nourishment and healing. See Privacy Policy at...

  14. Episode 31: MUSIC FEEDS THE SOUL

    Music is a source of nourishment for many people around the globe. On today's episode, Cynthia DJ CherishTheLuv spins some funky soul grooves from Ubiquity Records alongside musician Carrie Beehan, and tells stories about music and how it has nourished her. See Privacy Policy at...

  15. Episode 30: Servana Care: Chefs Helping You Recover

    For over two decades, Chef Jonathan Forgash provided catering for the biggest names in fashion, television and film. When an executive producer fell ill, he reached out to Jonathan for help during recovery. It was a life changing experience. His new company, Servana Care, provides in-home chef...

  16. Episode 29: SOCIAL MEDIA MASTERS

    YouTube Sensation, Laura Vitale, lets our host, Cynthia Cherish, and co-hosts singer Carrie Beehan, Chef Airis Johnson, and Kiesha Dutes, as well as callers pick her brain on how she built a successful culinary brand using social media by cooking and sticking to her passions. With 2.6 million...

  17. Episode 28: Gin, Dads, and the Making of Music

    New Zealandesque New York singer/songwriter, Carrie Beehan, and her father (in the form of a bottle of gin) join Cynthia Cherish Malaran in the studio today to discuss how food, drink and family inform the music you create and thus, feed into the world. We will discuss the process of creating...

  18. Episode 27: FEEDING CREATIVITY

    Latresa Baker, Actress, Writer, Director, Producer and Model joins Cynthia Cherish Malaran in the studio to talk about food's role in creativity and being onscreen. Most known for creating Ms. Monologue and the Pounds New York web series, Latresa's free spirit and go-getter mentality journeyed…

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  19. Episode 26: Chocolate Ink

    Oceana's Executive Pastry Chef, Colleen Grapes, Foodtographer, Nicole Horton and Ryann Mead of Fine & Raw Chocolate Factory, talk with Cynthia about the love of chocolate, sweets, fun times in the kitchen, tools, tattoos, what it was like to cook for SHARE Cancer Support's A Second Helping Of…

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  20. Episode 25: A Second Helping Of Life

    Women Power and Fooding for a Cause is our topic today as Cynthia is joined by Angie Mar, Executive Chef at Beatrice Inn, in the West Village, and Beth Cling, Director of Communications for SHARE. SHARE is a nonprofit organization that helps women facing ovarian and breast cancers. We will be...

  21. Episode 24: Salty Filmmaking and Food City

    In a perfect combination of secondary food and creative primary food, Chef Sarah Thompson, Saltmonger, and Chef from Extra Fancy in WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC, and Danish-born FIlmmaker Lars Fuchs come onto this episode to talk about failures, successes, food and filmmaking. See Privacy Policy…

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  22. Episode 23: From Sea to Shining Sea

    Seafood Master and then some, Chef Aaron Bashy, Executive Chef of Maloney & Porcelli, talks about creativity inspired by the ocean, the Greenmarket, the CIA, food real estate, and life at Le Bernardin, the Water Club, The Minnow and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

  23. Episode 22: Food and Creativity

    Continuing on the topic of Food and Music pairing, today's episode of Primary Food features super creative, food-loving, musician/songwriter and artist guests, Joanie Leeds, from NYC, and Rohitash Rao from L.A.! We will share stories about how food inspires and informs our creativity. We will…

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  24. Episode 21: Food and Music Pairings

    As a DJ, it dawned on me recently that there was a reason why I like to play music while I eat food and prep food. Music makes everything about life taste better! Okay, the RIGHT music, that is. In this episode, musician Isaac Raz, Founder and President of Whole Music LLC, discusses why food and...

  25. Episode 20: Whole Food & Whole Health

    Annalissa Vicencio, Music Therapist-Board Certified, Holistic Health Coach, Recovery and Eating Psychology Coach, talks whole foods and whole health with Cynthia Cherish Malaran. What does it mean to be whole? How do we become whole? How does music and creativity play a role in our holistic…

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  26. Episode 19: Cooking with Granny

    Caroline Shin, journalist, creator and host of the documentary web series "Cooking With Granny" featuring Grandmas' recipes served with a side of juicy stories. Check out each episode loaded with family recipes and authentic stories from 9 grandmas across cultures in NY. Enjoy the…

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  27. Episode 18: WE CAN BE HEROES

    Marvel Comics writer, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Editor-in-chief and partner with Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels at Darryl Makes Comics joins us in the studio today with his wife and son Kyung and Ennio. Edgardo has just launched his new super heroine, LA BORINQUEÑA, the world's first...

  28. Episode 17: Better Public Speaking & Food Activism

    Audrey Mann Cronin, the president of Mann Cronin PR joins us today. She is a communications consultant in consumer technology, a speaker and blogger for Our Digital Daughters where she explores the communications and social issues of growing up in our digital world. Audrey is founder of Say It...

  29. Episode 15: Hungry for Life

    Continuing on last week's episode of Primary Food, entitled "Really Enjoy Your Food," Life Coach, with a focus on eating psychology, Susan Hannigan, comes in to Heritage Radio Network to discuss her views on food choices, health, happiness and the rights and wrongs of dieting. Can you really…

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  30. Episode 14: Really Enjoy Your Food

    Can you really enjoy food if you're constantly dieting? We discuss dieting vs. simply focusing on getting highest quality food, having pleasure about it and loving your body as it is vs. the mindset of "when I achieve the perfect body, then I will be lovable." See Privacy Policy at...

  31. Episode 13: Ice Cream Lovers Unite!

    I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Join us for a World Tour Taste Test and get to know ice cream made with cacao and vanilla grown in exotic rainforests around the world. Choctál’s eight origins come from places like Costa Rica, Indonesia, Ghana and Papua New Guinea. Each origin...

  32. Episode 12: When Healthy Women Get Cancer

    I was a vegan, and a health coach when I developed my cancer. It happens. But, why? Fellow health coach, Christine Walsh Egan, Hay House author of The Healthy Girl’s Guide to Breast Cancer, comes in to talk about her “unthinkable one-year journey,” something I, and too many, can relate to. Cancer...

  33. Episode 11: BADASS PIZZA WOMEN

    Emily Hyland, of Brooklyn’s Pizza Loves Emily, and soon-to-open Detroit-Style pizza hotspot, Emmy Squared, brings in her crew of awesome women to discuss the importance of primary food in their pizza making lives. How does yoga, music, and playing with babies make for a happy and successful pizza...

  34. Episode 10: BIRD GARCIA, SKA & JAMBALAYA

    Don’t go to culinary school until you have listened to this episode! New Orleans gem, Chef Bird Garcia from Jalopy Tavern in Red Hook, Brooklyn, comes in to talk about his life in food and music, and what it’s REALLY like to start from the bottom as a dishwasher to become a veteran chef. We…

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  35. Episode 9: Food for the Ears

    Did you ever think of different genres of music being like different plates/styles/flavors of food? Brooklyn Bowl’s very own Rock and Roll Playhouse are here talking about how not only is the food we eat nourishing for our lives, but so is the music we play and listen to. Listen along for an...

  36. Episode 8: AIRIS THE CHEF COOKS!

    New Orleans is in the house! Chef Airis Johnson has just developed her own line of spice blends, influenced by her Louisiana tastebuds and working for greats like Danny Meyer (Shake Shack), Gordon Ramsay (Gordon Ramsay at the London, NYC), Sue Torres (Suenos) and Whole Foods Market, to name a…

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  37. Episode 7: Beatboxing and Poetry for Nourishment

    It is so frustrating when you’re not being heard and you can’t express yourself freely. Allowing yourself to flow with your words is hugely nourishing and healing for all. This is so important to our health and understanding of one another’s experiences. Today’s episode of Primary Food has a…

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  38. Episode 6: Better Than Tinder

    Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match… Well, the previous episode of Primary Food was about weddings and ceremonies, but how do you even get to the wedding stage without a great relationship going? That’s why we’ve got on the mic Professional Matchmaker and Relationship Expert, Gabi Lovve,...

  39. Episode 5: CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!

    How do you choose a wedding officiant? How do you commemorate life’s other momentous events? Baby namings, pet losses, even honor a divorce for closure you might needing? How do you memorialize people who have shaped you? Draw support from those you hold dear? Today, we are three ordained...

  40. Episode 4: BREASTS AND LADY PARTS. YEAH WE SAID IT.

    Listen along to a reading of “To Boob or Not To Boob” from Cynthia’s “The Cancer Diaries,” conversations about reconnecting with yourself for free, emotional eating, generational trauma, healing, movement, play Integrative Nutrition, and more, with guests on the mic: • Tim Haft, Personal Trainer...

  41. Episode 3: Self Care for the Self Aware

    Listen along to conversations about reconnecting with yourself for free, emotional eating, generational trauma, healing, movement, play Integrative Nutrition, and more, with guests on the mic: • Tim Haft, Personal Trainer and founder of Punk Rope, Beastanetics, and Great Riddance • Susan…

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  42. Episode 2: Creative Freedom, Musical Instruments & Burgers

    Listen along to today’s episode of _ Primary Food _ covering creative freedom, musical instruments, burgers, Integrative Nutrition, and more: Food review of VBurger, a compassionate, new, vegan burger joint in Union Square NYC New Music by DJ CherishTheLuv A Reading From The Cancer Diaries:...

  43. Episode 1: Primary Food Debuts!

    Cynthia Cherish Malaran, aka Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, a breast cancer patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC, talks about the importance of PRIMARY FOOD’s role in her successful cancer treatment in this pilot episode. The food on our tables that we put in our mouths is secondary food. Primary...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

PRIMARY FOOD is an exploration into all the things in life that nourish our minds, bodies and souls—all the fun stuff that guides us towards the quality of the food we eat. Hosted by Rev. DJ CherishTheLuv, who is currently undergoing aggressive cancer treatment and seeking the finest, and funnest, things in life.

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