Melissa d'Arabian: A wife of 16 years and mother to their four beautiful girls, which includes one set of twins.
She is a speaker, writer, television host, and celebrity chef. After winning season five of "The Next Food Network Star" in August 2009, Melissa premiered her inaugural cooking show, "Ten Dollar Dinners".
She went on to be a New York Times Best-Selling Author with her first cookbook "Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week", which debuted in August 2012.
Melissa then followed up with her second cookbook in December of 2014 --- "Supermarket Healthy: Recipes and Know-How for Eating Well without Spending A Lot".
And now she is celebrating her third book, "Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves".
Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including motherhood, poverty, redemption, suicide, body image, cooking, plus so much more.
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Quotes and statements within the interview:
"What brings me joy more than anything else is connection."
"Being a mom of four girls has just been such an honor. I can't believe God let me do that."
"The spiritual winter after my mom's death really came from my inability to reconcile her suicide."
"But in her death, I really learned how to have joy without being happy."
"I love story, because it's universal."
"It was something I wanted, I needed to learn and reconcile about food culture versus what God wanted be to feel and think about food."
"A lot of the stuff that I felt yucky about with food, I realize I was creating and society was creating and God wasn't. And God was inviting me into such goodness."
"Every meal has the ability to invite us into a bunch of these invitations and has the ability to draw us closer to God."
"When you don't have enough of something, that shapes how you look at food."
"God's invitations aren't separated out in outline form."
"I look back at my life, and I cannot find one instance in earnest where God really dropped me."
"So much of life is just showing up."
What has your story gifted you?
"My story with loss, yucky, good, bad, good decisions, bad decisions, things working out, some things not working out --- all of that has been my story. All of that has just sucked me right on up into being close to God."
"So for that if it took that story to get me closer to God, then I love my story."
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