June Hersh is an everything bagel. She embodies it all -- as a renowned home cook and acclaimed food writer. The merits of "doing well, then doing good" -- are front and center for June -- She’s the author, of three books, a sought-after speaker, and food archivist who will be the first one to agree that she does not have an “inside voice” As a food writer and cookbook author, she’s been using "food stories" to help Holocaust survivors, and writing books with a “charitable flavor.” She gets around, and you may have even seen her mesmerizing a crowd at a book reading, or even lighting up your TV on QVC. June joins chef and author Rozanne Gold in the MouthMedia Network studio.
In this episode:
- Why June says she doesn’t have an inside voice and how it connects too life in culinary world
- June’s Book “Recipes Remembered “ about recipes during the holocaust, and how it came to be
- How mine’s voice symbolizes one’s essence
- Why June’s email address has to do with motherhood
- “Let’s Do Good”
- Why, when you want to write a cookbook, finding your passion is the first thing
- June’s “guardian angel”
- Starting at a happy place, talking about family instead of the war
- The steps to make a cookbook and why you need a literary agent
- June’s second book as more of a photography book
- Why the next recipe book wasn’t as heartfelt
- Writing about a global history of yogurt - and how June started her book without her heart in it, over time it has become personal, and loving how foods connect people
- Clean labeling and transparency, local sourcing
- Connection - find what makes you happy
- Connecting a project with your own personal history can help it resonate with many people
- Recipes and their evolution, and what they tell about the evolution of women
- The way to make matzo balls
- Leaving out one ingredient when passing along family recipes to protect them
- Guilty pleasures - fried chicken, and Duck à l'orange, a bag of red licorice
- Matzo Meatcakes - a legacy recipe
- Eat well, do good
