Thirty years into her career as a chef and cookbook author, Carla Lalli is releasing a book many people told her she shouldn’t write. It’s called Food Is A Feeling, and it’s a lot more personal than her others. It has plenty of great recipes, but at its core it’s a series of essays about her divorce, and how it changed her relationship with food. Carla talks with Dan about what she made the night she and her ex-husband told the kids they were separating, and how she learned to embrace cooking just for pleasure. Plus, she tells us why she put a recipe for a failed tuna melt in the book. 

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This episode contains explicit language. 

Interstitial music in this episode by Black Label Music:

• "Iced Coffee" by Josh Leininger
• "Talk To Me Now" by Hayley Briasco and Kenneth J. Brahmstedt
• "Marimba Feels Good" by Stephen Sullivan
• "I Still Can't Believe" by Kenneth J. Brahmstedt
• "Private Detective" by Cullen Fitzpatrick
• "Lost And Found" by Casey Hjelmberg
• "Enigmatic Rhodes" by Stephen Sullivan
• "Rogue Apples" by Karla Dietmeyer and Olivia Diercks
• "Narwhal" by Casey Hjelmberg

Photo courtesy of Lucia Bell-Epstein. 

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