Michele is Plant Based Certified Nutrition Coach, Food Consultant, Recipe Guru, Food Photographer.
She comes originally from Milwaukee in Wisconsin and has travelled widely living in Evansville in Indiana, St Louis in Missouri Beijing, DongGuan and Hong Kong in China and Phuket in Thailand. Currently Michele lives in Hong Kong.
Michele has worked in Fashion Footwear, as a Wine School Director, Food Photographer, Culinary Nutrition Coach and she still finds time to be a Climate Reality Leader.
Michele is a self-confessed Foodie and has been a Foodie most all of her life, educating herself formally and informally, in everything Food and Nutrition extensively in US, in Europe and in Asia.
Michele is a dedicated environmentalist, a passion going back decades to when she assisted in an Earthwatch program in the early 90s in Zimbabwe, tracking Black Rhinos as a part of her honeymoon through to her active involvement as a Climate Reality Leader in the Al Gore initiative.
Michele is on a mission to help her clients live healthier lives by changing the way they understand nutrition. Helping her clients get more plants on their plates, to prepare meals that are nutritionally dense and well balanced and to live happier, healthier and longer lives.
02:55 Milwaukee the City of Festivals……….
06:15 I grew up in a family of cooks……
07:53 My interest in food came from articles in the Chicago News…..
09:22 I went in search of how I could avoid getting fibroids…….. Nutrition has made a big impact……
10:35 My knowledge of nutrition is like a snowball…….
12:21 We lived in Beijing for 2 years.
13:21 My favourite foods come from Chengdu ……
13:58 I have been in the Fashion industry …… In the footwear industry….
15:58 Working in fashion is hard work ……. Fast paced …….
17:15 I was known for my dinner parties… I would put them on for family and friends….
18:12 The best eating places in Chengdu ……… The table was covered in food……..
20:45 The back allies in China feel safe…… People are friendly ……
21:18 How do you help people….
23:05 How can listeners help themselves?....... Education, be curious, what it means to eat plant-based foods…..
25:20 Eat a lot of plants…Eat 30 different plant-based foods in a week….. Eat more beans…
28:23 Building a plate ……. You want a mix …..
31:20 How do change from a meat and two veg to a plant-based diet?.......
33:20 How do clients want to move…..
35:25 Moving to a plant based diet becomes easier after one month…. Your taste buds change …….
36:25 We have become addicted to processed food……
37:25 Take it one day at a time …..
41:41 I own over three hundred cook books…..
42:57 Quote: “There is a crack in everything that is how the light gets in” Leonard Cohen
Contact Michele
Website: www.ourconciouskitchen.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurConsciousKitchenHK
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/our.concious.kitchen
Books:
West with the Night: Beryl Markham
How not to Die/How not to Diet: Dr. Michael Gregor
Fiber Fueled: Will Bulsiewicz
The Hairy Ape: Eugene O’Neil
Portraits of France: Robert Daly
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