Tune in Tomorrow: Finding Healthy Restaurants with Holly Hickman
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A few years ago, when I started eating traditional food, I woke up to the reality of what’s in most restaurant food. Most restaurants offer a bonanza of unhealthy industrial food, or rather, in Michael Pollan’s words, “edible food-like substances”. Factory-farm meat soaked in ammonia (oh yes, they really do that), MSG-flavored everything, hydrogenated soybean oil, not to mention the lighter fluid in chicken nuggets (and yes, they do that, too).
Needless to say, we started eating out a whole lot less. But there are restaurants we still love to go to, and I’m happy to say there is a new guidebook out that makes eating out so much easier.
Healthy Eats Here: The Restaurant Guide for Real Foodies
Tomorrow, former Fox News reporter, Holly Hickman, will be joining us on the CHEESESLAVE Podcast Show.
Holly has written a new book called Healthy Eats Here. With over 200 entries across the nation, it’s a restaurant guidebook listing all her favorite healthy, organic, local, and sustainable-farm-fresh restaurants.
Holly writes in the introduction of her book:
I spent five years seeking out the kinds of places that use the sort of ingredients I like to eat at home: organic, seasonal, fresh vegetables. Meat from cows that have been grazing on grass, not grains. (More on why later.) Dairy from animals that haven’t been injected with growth hormones. (If I’ve got a tumor somewhere, do I really want to give it a growth hormone?) Fish that is not endangered (goodbye, Chilean sea bass!) and that has been caught in a sustainable manner, one that doesn’t kill off coral and other marine life.
Tune in for the Show!
The show will air live TOMORROW, Tuesday February 2nd, at 12 noon Pacific and 3 pm Eastern.
If you like to eat out like I do, but want to avoid CAFO beef and want to find places that make their own bone broth and buy their vegetables from the local farmer’s market, you’ll want to listen tomorrow to hear what Holly has to say.
We’ll talk about what’s wrong with feed-lot beef, how to order fish (Farmed or wild-caught? What to avoid and what’s OK), and how to eat a healthy meal wherever you are.
But most of all, we’ll talk restaurants. Holly’s eaten out way more than I have. And you guys know I love restaurants and am a big fan of chefs.
Here’s Holly with Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine in Miami (where she lives):
So many chefs to discuss… We’ll talk about Top Chef finalist (SO sad he did not win), Chef Kevin Gillespie’s Woodfire Grill in Atlanta and Chef Dan Barber’s Blue Hill in New York. And let’s not forget Chef Susan Spicer’s fabulous Bayona in New Orleans or York Street in Dallas. Some of the best meals in my life!
We’ll make the rounds from Maui, Hawaii for sustainably raised local seafood to Lawrence, Kansas for grass-fed burgers to Ann Arbor, Michigan for a stop at Zingerman’s.
And of course we’ll talk about all my favorite restaurants in Los Angeles — all my regular haunts are in the book!
Call In & Ask Your Questions!
If you have questions for Holly, please call in! I’m going to be brave tomorrow and take my first live callers. I’d love to hear from you guys.
Here’s how to call in: Dial (347) 838-9417
Yep, it’s that easy. Just call in between noon and 1 pm tomorrow (that’s Pacific time — it’s 3 pm Eastern). Holly and I will chat for 20-30 minutes or so and then I will take callers.
You can also ask your questions below — or hit me up on Facebook or Twitter.
Bookmark my podcast page so you can be ready to listen tomorrow: CHEESESLAVE on Blog Talk Radio
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01/02/2010 at 7:36 pm Permalink
Sounds like fun! I’ve never listened to a live Podcast before but I will try to figure out how to tune in. Eating out is such a challenge for me because so many restaurants are fluoridated. Thanks for providing the opportunity to hear what Holly has to say!
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01/02/2010 at 7:55 pm Permalink
A question from http://www.twitter.com/JoyfulAbode
@cheeseslave I’d like to know if there are any regional or chain restaurants that use lard or tallow for frying instead of veg oils.
@cheeseslave I meant regional or national chains. Not local places ( unless they’re near me. Hehe. )
01/02/2010 at 8:34 pm Permalink
From http://twitter.com/KergElaine
@cheeseslave I don’t think they have real food in regular US restaurants, right? rBGH, antibiotics, grain-fed, GMOs & pesticides!
01/02/2010 at 11:24 pm Permalink
This sounds like a great resource! I am lucky to live in a city where our Farm to Restaurant project lists all the local places that buy local ingredients (grass fed meats, local produce, etc.) This doesn’t mean they aren’t using canola oil or other oddities, but at least it is a step in the right direction!
Having worked in the restaurant industry, it really is appalling what people are served, even in the nicer places. Look forward to listening!
– RFM
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02/02/2010 at 12:36 am Permalink
Awesome! I would love to have that book! Hope you guys have a great time
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02/02/2010 at 2:41 am Permalink
I live in LA too and would LOVE to hear where I can go out to eat. I haven’t eaten out in months and months….Thanks!
02/02/2010 at 10:57 am Permalink
I LOVE what she’s done here – and will definitely rely on it when I travel. What a relief to know that there’s wholesome places where we can enjoy the food without squirming for fear of sketchy meat and rancid oils. In our community, we’re pretty fortunate: even the local gas station / short order grill serves grass-finished local beef. Got to love that!
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02/02/2010 at 1:42 pm Permalink
If it’s 1:00 in LA, it’s 4 EST, not 3! Thanks for all you do!
02/02/2010 at 4:16 pm Permalink
This looks like a great read, and I look forward to hearing to what she has to say!
02/02/2010 at 4:31 pm Permalink
It’s 12 noon in LA, not 1
02/02/2010 at 5:26 pm Permalink
I grew up in Lawrence, KS, and i have eaten at Local Burger. Yummy!
Hahaha, listening right now. That first live caller, Oh Boy, LOL!
I thought he was saying something else to……..
I hope he just did not understood what the show was about.
Paula
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