Women Beyond a Certain Age Podcast

Ministry + Cooking = Rev. Pam

This week Denise chats with her old friend, Rev. Pamela Nelson-Munson. They talk about how neither one was “good in school,” and how they eventually found their places, how a pastor is like a mistress, and taking a break to go to culinary school. She says, “Thinking if I worked hard, was polite, smiled, and wore deodorant that everyone would play nice in the sandbox.” Rev. Pam shares with us some wisdom and some things she’d like to be able to do over:
Do-overs:
Not be so quick to please as a defense mechanism.
Withhold immediate responses, and trust that tomorrow brings its own wisdom.
Have talked more over with my dad for his long view.      
Asked my mother more about herself (apart from being a mother and a wife).
Listened more than talked with my daughters.
Not followed my grandfather’s and father’s maxim: the job comes 1st.

Travel Tips!

This week Denise shares her travel tips for making trips easier!
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.

Ephemera! with Liz Pollock

Our friend Liz Pollock is back with us to talk about the wonderful world of culinary ephemera. You know, all those fantastic old pamphlets and booklets that appliance manufacturers produced to show women how to use their fancy new labor-saving appliances. Stoves and toasters! Fryers and broilers! Blenders and microwaves! Liz has a talk coming up at the Mark Taper Auditorium on May 13th on American Ingenuity and Innovation: Kitchen Appliance Instruction Manuals. Details on the Culinary Historians of Southern California website below.
Liz is the author of The Lost Restaurants of Santa Cruz County. She is the owner of The Cook’s Bookcase, an independent bookstore specializing in food, wine, and a bit of gardening. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA.
   
LIZ’S LINKS:
Website: https://www.cooksbookcase.com
Phone: 831-251-9281
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057353294234
The Lost Restaurants of Santa Cruz County: https://www.cooksbookcase.com/blogs/news/lost-restaurants-of-santa-cruz-county-pre-order-now
Wiki: https://en.everybodywiki.com/Liz_Pollock
Culinary Historians of Southern California: https://www.chsocal.org
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
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Denise Vivaldo is the host of WBACA. Her info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Denise-Vivaldo/e/B001K8QNRA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

The Intersection of Race, Culture & Food with Debra Freeman [Rebroadcast]

Our guest this week is Debra Freeman. Debra has written for outlets such as Plate Magazine, Epicurious, Garden and Gun, Pit Magazine, Gravy, Southern Grit Magazine, and Gastro Obscura, has had her work featured in Huffington Post and The New York Times, and has done cultural commentary for BBC Radio and other international outlets. Freeman writes about the intersection of race, culture, and food. Read Why Yellow Cake is so Important to Black Celebrations, along with some other pieces by Debra (links below)!
DEBRA’S LINKS:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audiophilegirl/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/audiophilegirl
Why Yellow Cake is so Important to Black Celebrations: https://food52.com/blog/26915-boxed-yellow-cake-mix-black-celebrations
A Fruitful Journey: https://www.southernfoodways.org/a-fruitful-journey/
Here’s Looking at ‘Cue: https://www.southernfoodways.org/heres-looking-at-cue/
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
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Denise Vivaldo is the host of WBACA. Her info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Denise-Vivaldo/e/B001K8QNRA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Restaurants in the Bigger Scheme of Things with Michele Jones [Rebroadcast]

Michele Jones is back! This time we talk about how she believes the best restaurants are so much more than places that just sell food; they are community meeting places. We discuss the importance of making everyone who walks through the door feel like a regular, being kind, giving back by aligning your business with charities that share your values (generating valuable earned PR), Keanu Reeves, Drew Barrymore, and Molly Ringwald.
Michele is all about great people, great food, and great community. As former co-owner of Comfort, Pasture, and Bingo she learned a lot about the restaurant business and about the wonderful people in the small business community. Michele is a community mover and shaker who loves to give back and delight others. Michele is a doer who loves the people who surround her. Now with Alley/Jones Hospitality she and her partner, Jason Alley, are helping others make their restaurant and retail dreams a reality. When not working or volunteering with children’s charities or Habitat for Humanity she’s traveling to Dollywood with her best friend and her best friend’s son, hanging out with the best little dog in the world or checking out the many fun places in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Michele has a knack for making everyone feel special, welcomed and that they have a place in the world. She was once Diane Sawyer’s person of the week – though she’ll wholeheartedly avoid talking about the press she’s received for doing good things in Richmond and beyond. She loves to travel and find small treasures to surprise others and make them feel happy. All these are probably the reasons why she loves that quote attributed to Vince Lombardi: “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”Find out more about Michele on her website: https://alleyjones.com
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
SHOW LINKS
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Denise Vivaldo is the host of WBACA. Her info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Denise-Vivaldo/e/B001K8QNRA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

The General’s Cook with Ramin Ganeshram [Rebroadcast]

Ramin Ganeshram is with us this week to talk about her brilliant book, The General’s Cook.
She dedicated 7 years to researching and writing this intriguing and suspenseful novel and continues to pursue leads into the elusive life of America’s first celebrity chef, Hercules Posey. The time: 1793. The place: Philadelphia. Hercules, President George Washington’s chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in the kitchen and rewarded far over and above even white servants, Hercules is enslaved in a city where most black Americans are free. Even while he masterfully manages his kitchen and the lives of those in and around it, Hercules harbors secrets-- including the fact that he is learning to read and that he is involved in a dangerous affair with Thelma, a mixed-race woman, who, passing as white, works as a companion to the daughter of one of Philadelphia's most prestigious families. Eventually Hercules’ carefully crafted intrigues fall apart, and he finds himself trapped by his circumstance and the will of George Washington. Based on actual historical events and people, The General's Cook, will thrill fans of The Hamilton Affair, as they follow Hercules' precarious and terrifying bid for freedom.
 
Ramin is a veteran journalist with a master’s degree from Columbia University. She worked for eight years as a stringer for the New York Times, and another eight years for New York Newsday as a feature writer and food columnist. She has been honored seven times with the Society of Professional Journalist Award. Ramin is also a professionally trained chef who specializes in writing about multicultural communities from the perspective of food, history, and culture. She is the executive director of the Westport Historical Society in Connecticut and the recipient of a 2018 New England Museum Association Excellence in the field for her critically acclaimed Westport exhibit, Remembered: The History of African Americans in Westport, which also won the national American Association for State and Local History Award in 2019.
 
Ramin’s links:
Website: TheGeneralsCook.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nibblescribblenyc/
Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Generals-Cook-Novel-Ramin-Ganeshram/dp/1950691977/ref=sr_1_1
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
SHOW LINKS
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Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBeyond/
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Denise Vivaldo is the host of WBACA. Her info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Denise-Vivaldo/e/B001K8QNRA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Self-Compassion with Crescent Dragonwagon [Rebroadcast]

The Dragon herself, Crescent Dragonwagon, is with us this week! Our conversation jumps around like “like a cat on a june bug,” which makes it all that much more fascinating. She talks self-compassion, writing, and growing up the child of writers. Crescent has a special offer on her Self-Compassion 101 class for our listeners: https://dragonwagon.com/women-beyond-age/
CRESCENT’S LINKS:
Self-Compassion 101 video: https://fb.watch/aBHT81nmdF/
Website: https://dragonwagon.com
Books: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B000APJCO0
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crescent.dragonwagon
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdragonwagon
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cdragonwagon/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crescent-dragonwagon-0565b47/
Email: crescent@dragonwagon.com
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
SHOW LINKS:
Website: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com
Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WomenBeyond/
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Episode archive: https://womenbeyond.podbean.com
Email us: WomenBeyond@icloud.com
Denise Vivaldo is the host of WBACA. Her info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Denise-Vivaldo/e/B001K8QNRA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Culture and Cakes with Nancie McDermott [Rebroadcast]

The wonderful Nancie McDermott is with us this week. We talk cakes and anti-racism.
Excerpted from Nancie’s Anti-Racism Facebook page:
“I'm Nancie McDermott, a white woman born and raised in North Carolina. I started this group as a place to look at how powerfully and stealthily racism and anti-Blackness are woven into our systems and institutions…We can move toward creating a place of justice and safety; of compassion and respect, of equity with opportunity for everyone. Knowing the truth can strengthen us to speak up, take action, examine our perspectives, and change things that seemed immovable. Silence means consent, so let's be loud and clear about where we are now, how we got here, where we want to go, and who we want to be: A nation of liberty and justice for all.”
 
Nancie’s links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NancieMcDermott
Nancie’s Anti-Racism Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/435086244410173
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMeXbPSB2545WygzQxUOcTQ/featured
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nanciemacpix/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/nanciestable/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nanciestable
 
Nancie’s Resources:
READ:
Cookbooks and food books (in order of publication):
 
BRAND NEW BOOK on Juneteenth!
Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations, by Nicole Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/Watermelon-Red-Birds-Juneteenth-Celebrations/dp/1982176210
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Watermelon-and-Red-Birds/Nicole-A-Taylor/9781982176211
 
Cheryl Day’s Treasury of Southern Baking, by Cheryl Day
https://www.amazon.com/Cheryl-Days-Treasury-Southern-Baking/dp/1579658415/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35TSRNNF4ZWZW&keywords=treasury+of+southern+baking&qid=1654185620&s=books&sprefix=treasury+of+southern+baking%2Cstripbooks%2C57&sr=1-1
 
Life Is What You Bake It: Recipes, Stories, and Inspiration for Baking Your Way to the Top, by Vallery Lomas
https://www.amazon.com/Life-What-You-Bake-Inspiration-ebook/dp/B08PY8ZTVB
 
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking, by Toni Tipton-Martin
https://www.amazon.com/Jubilee-Recipes-Centuries-African-American-Cookbook/dp/1524761737/ref=pd_lpo_3?pd_rd_i=1524761737&psc=1
 
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, by Dr. Jessica B. Harris
https://www.amazon.com/High-Hog-Culinary-Journey-America/dp/1608194507/ref=asc_df_1608194507/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312068104930&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=613964457390760630&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1021225&hvtargid=pla-512300006634&psc=1
 
WATCH:
Available on streaming services
 
High on the Hog
Netflix Series
 
When They See Us
Directed by Ava Duvernay
 
Selma
Directed by Ava Duvernay
Amazon
 
Just Mercy
Story of Attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and director of Equal Justice Initiative (see below)
Amazon Prime
 
Black Panther
Marvel hero T’Challa played by the late Chadwick Bozeman
 
“I Am Not Your Negro”
Documentary on James Baldwin
 
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
PBS Documentary Series by Dr. Henry Louis Gates
 
MORE RESOURCES:
The Equal Justice Initiative
https://eji.org/
https://eji.org/about/
Visit EJI’s two locations in Montgomery AL:
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The Legacy Museum
Sign up for Daily emails from EJI
https://calendar.eji.org/sign-up
 
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
https://www.amazon.com/1619-Project-Born-Water/dp/0593307356/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_1/130-0109168-1434738?pd_rd_w=Vnpek&content-id=amzn1.sym.6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_p=6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_r=PNRP5942HGGKK4SDR2Z4&pd_rd_wg=crjZq&pd_rd_r=3b079be2-80eb-4c81-980e-8dd9e7d95863&pd_rd_i=0593307356&psc=1
 
 
Born on the Water (The 1619 Project), picture book by Nikole Hannah-Jones
https://www.amazon.com/1619-Project-Born-Water/dp/0593307356/ref=pd_bxgy_img_sccl_1/130-0109168-1434738?pd_rd_w=Vnpek&content-id=amzn1.sym.6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_p=6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_r=PNRP5942HGGKK4SDR2Z4&pd_rd_wg=crjZq&pd_rd_r=3b079be2-80eb-4c81-980e-8dd9e7d95863&pd_rd_i=0593307356&psc=1
 
 
Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast covers wide-ranging subjects of importance to older women.
 
SHOW LINKS
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Denise Vivaldo is the host of WBACA. Her info lives here: https://denisevivaldogroup.com/
More of Denise’s info is here: https://denisevivaldo.com
Cindie Flannigan is the producer WBACA. Her info lives here: https://linktr.ee/cindieflannigan
Denise and Cindie’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Denise-Vivaldo/e/B001K8QNRA%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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