Women Beyond a Certain Age Podcast

LA’s Landmark Restaurants with George Geary

Our guest this week is author, cooking teacher, culinary tour leader, and pastry chef, George Geary. George’s newest book is L.A.’s Landmark Restaurants, the follow-up book to L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants. This gorgeous coffee table book is an illustrated history of 60 famous Los Angeles restaurants from throughout the 20th century. Includes over 100 recipes!
With wit and wisdom, George guides home cooks on everything from cookies and pastries to cheesecakes, sauces, dressings, and rubs, to how to use a food processor. George had been a featured speaker and lecturer aboard the Holland America Line’s ships for the past nine years as part of Food & Wine Magazine’s Chef’s at Sea.
George is the author of 16 best-selling and highly regarded cookbooks, including; 125 Best Cheesecake Recipes, 125 Best Biscuit Mix Recipes, 125 Food Processor Recipes, The Complete Baking Cookbook, The Cheesecake Bible, 500 Best Sauces, Salad Dressings, Marinades and More, 350 Best Salads and Dressings, 650 Food Processor Recipes, 150 Best Donut Recipes, The Cheesecake Bible Version 2, LA’s Legendary Restaurants, Fair Foods, Made in California Volume 1 & 2, and LAs Landmark Restaurants.
George leads award-winning, mouth-watering culinary tours of major cities in America and Europe. This year will mark George’s 30th year in Morning Television. You can see him coast to coast on WGN-TV Chicago, NBC Tampa, and his home station FOX San Diego.
When not traveling to teach, George lives in sunny California.
 
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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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Julie Tran Deily and ADHD

This week we talk with one of our favorite returning guests, Julie Tran Deily! Like Denise, Julie has also recently been diagnosed with ADHD. Suddenly, a lot of things started making sense to her. She’s been researching ways to make her life easier and is with us to share what she’s learned. Her new website drops next week; be sure to check it out! creativedatanerd.com, and @creativedatanerd on Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok.
Julie is a former software engineer turned full-time freelancer and blogger. She started her very popular food blog, The Little Kitchen, in 2009. Her recipes use fresh ingredients, are pretty much no-fuss, and often indulgent enough to be considered comfort food. Julie works with brands like Kitchen Aid, Land O Lakes, Le Creuset, and many others doing sponsored posts, brand ambassadorships, food photography, and writing.
 
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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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Bitter Sweet with Kitty Morse

Denise talks with Kitty Morse about her most recent cookbook, Bitter Sweet: A Wartime journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France.
Award-winning author Kitty Morse was born in Casablanca, Morocco, of a French mother and British father. She emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. While studying for her Master’s Degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Kitty catered Moroccan diffas, or banquets, and went on to teach the intricacies of Moroccan cuisine in cooking schools and department stores nationwide. In June 2002, she conducted a Culinary Concert on Moroccan culture and cuisine hosted by Julia Child, as a benefit for the Harry Bell Foundation of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Kitty’s books have been translated into French, German, Polish, and Czech. In 1984 (and for the next 25 years) she initiated annual gastronomic tours to Morocco that included culinary demonstrations in her family home, a Moorish riad south of Casablanca. Her monthly e-newsletter, The Kasbah Chronicles, in French and in English, is now in its twelfth year of circulation. Kitty has authored one memoir and 10 cookbooks.
 
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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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Marcella Hazan

Denise tells us about working with her idol, Marcella Hazan, when she was a culinary student in San Francisco.
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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Blue Ribbon Kitchen with Linda Skeens

Linda Skeens, author of Recipes and Tips from America’s Favorite County Fair Champion, is with us this week to talk about the joy she finds in cooking, crafts, canning, and family.
Last summer at the Virginia Kentucky State Fair, one woman won first, second and third place for best cookies. She also swept all three awards for candy and for savory bread. And won the blue ribbon for cake, pie, brownie, sweet bread, and best overall baked goods (that was strawberry fudge.) But it didn't end there. She won for canned tomatoes, canned corn, pickled peppers, sauerkraut, relish, spaghetti sauce and both jelly and jam. And after the fair posted these utterly dominating results on social media in June, you guessed it— she went viral. Linda Skeens, a 74-year-old grandmother from Appalachia, won 30 ribbons in all.  Now, after decades of cooking for her family and competing in county fair cookoffs, she’s not only internet famous, but has been celebrated across the country for her mouthwatering, downhome dishes.  Her award-winning recipes and delightful family stories will be published for the first time ever in a new book, BLUE RIBBON KITCHEN: Recipes and Tips from America’s Favorite County Fair Champion.   
 
When Linda Skeens gained sudden and widespread fame for winning dozens of ribbons at the Virginia-Kentucky District Fair in the summer of 2022, people across the country began asking, “Who is Linda Skeens?” Her first-ever published collection of recipes and family stories, Blue-Ribbon Cooking: Recipes and Tips from America’s Favorite County Fair Champion, answers the question that’s been on everyone’s mind. Linda is an Appalachian grandmother who’s been cooking for her loved ones and entering county fairs for decades, frequently taking home the highest honors. In her new book, she shares more than 30 of her prize-winning recipes in additional to more than 70 other family-favorite dishes. From canning and fudges to stews and casseroles, this cookbook features a lifetime of recipes collected and perfected by Linda Skeens.
 
BUY THE BOOK: https://a.co/d/5GJkbZy
 
LINDA IN THE NEWS:
Here & Now NPR https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/05/31/blue-ribbon-kitchen-cookbook
https://www.today.com/food/people/linda-skeens-makes-tv-debut-today-rcna39316
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110242519/county-fair-award-winner-linda-skeens
https://wcyb.com/news/local/local-viral-baking-sensation-linda-skeens-to-appear-on-the-kelly-clarkson-show-thursday
https://www.today.com/food/news/linda-skeens-cookbook-rcna49493
https://www.today.com/food/people/linda-skeens-virginia-kentucky-district-fair-rcna36121
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125268653/linda-skeens-tiktok 
Today Show
NPR
The Kelly Clarkson Show
 
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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C.Lee Cawley: Have a Paper Problem?

Certified Professional Organizer C.Lee Cawley is with us this week to talk about her current mission to bring order to cluttered desks and overwhelmed minds with her signature course “The Paper Cleanse”. Join the webinar waitlist at: https://www.cleecawley.com/enroll
C.Lee teaches people how to declutter their paper piles and curate their frustrating files for long-lasting paper organization, without scanning a thing! Through her adroit advice and insightful instruction, C.Lee has transformed both the living spaces and personal lives of her thousands of followers, clients, and students on five continents.
 
C.Lee lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband of over 30 years and considers herself "indoorsy".  As an Anglophile who also adores alliteration, she delights in hosting friends for divine desserts, decadent drinks, and deep discussions.  
 
C.LEE’S LINKS:
Website: https://www.cleecawley.com/
Free ebook--12 Types of Paper to Toss Today: https://www.cleecawley.com/toss
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/organizingnow
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c.leecawley_simplifyyou/
S.C.O.R.E. website: https://www.score.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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Oh Look, There’s a Bunny!

This week Denise talks about working with her ADHD.
 
EPISODE LINKS:
ADHD Workbook for Women by Sarah Davis and Linda Hill
Anyone Can Improve Their Focus, Huberman Lab Podcast #37
Behavior: Hail to the Hyperactive Hunter, Time Magazine, July 18, 1994
Behavior: Attention Deficient Disorder: Life in Overdrive, Time Magazine, July 18, 1984
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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Nana’s Creole Italian Table with Liz Williams

Liz Williams, author of Nana's Creole Italian Table, a cookbook about the Sicilian community in New Orleans, is with us to chat about growing up in New Orleans.
Always fascinated by the way the lure of nutmeg and peppercorns motivated the exploration of the world, Liz Williams was lucky to be born into a family of Sicilian heritage in New Orleans. She grew up eating in two great food traditions. She is a founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum and of the National Food & Beverage Foundation. Much of her research and writing centers on the legal and policy issues related to food and foodways.
 
Her book, coauthored with Stephanie Jane Carter, The Encyclopedia of Law and Food, was published by Greenwood Publishing in 2011. In 2013 AltaMira published New Orleans: A Food Biography. Her book Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans about the drinking culture of New Orleans was published by LSU Press in the spring of 2016. Unique Eats & Eateries New Orleans was published by Reedy Press in 2019.
 
Liz hosts the Tip of the Tongue, a podcast for eaters and drinkers who are curious about individuals and issues at the intersection of food, drink, and culture and are hungry for more.
 
Liz shares a recipe from her new book with us. Super simple and supremely delicious!
Olive Oil and Lemon Spread
Makes about a cup
If you find mayonnaise rich but bland, try this instead. The pectin in the lemon (or other citrus) skin will emulsify the oil, so you don't need egg. In Nana's day, lemons were abundant, and this was what she typically used instead of mayonnaise. I like it on freshly sliced tomatoes and sandwiches.
 
1 lemon (or 5 or 6 kumquats)
1 cup olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash the lemon and quarter it. Don't worry about the seeds, they'll emulsify. Place the lemon quarters into a blender. Add half of the oil, as well as the salt and pepper.
Slowly start the blender and gradually raise the speed until the oil and lemon are emulsified. Drizzle the rest of the oil into the blender while it is running.
Place the spread into a jar, cover with a lid, and refrigerate up to 3 weeks.
 
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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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