I've been exploring what I call The Foodverse™ for over seven decades. My earliest tastes remain lively in my memory. They were the smells and flavors of everyday meals created with love in my grandmother's and mother's kitchens.
I have had the good fortune to enjoy food grown, nurtured, and set on tables by loving home cooks In the United States and Europe. Also, I've dined in some of the finest restaurants and neighborhood spots.
Life as an everyday home cook informs me.
I'm not an expert, nutritionist, dietician, doctor, health coach, or scientist.
I'm a builder. Each person's food/lifestyle journey is unique. I offer a vastly different perspective based on observation, experience, study, travel, and a personal relationship with many small organic growers whose products I imported from Italy.
Also, for 17 years, I have hosted Great Taste. In this weekly radio program (for many years, a live cooking show), I chat with cookbook authors, food producers, journalists, chefs, and others striving to inform listeners about each individual's power to create a more tasty, abundant, diverse, healthy, and regenerative world.
The Need for a New Healthy Paradigm
As my friend Matt Steigerwald says, "Food is important."
Unfortunately, diet and lifestyle advice omit crucial elements. The conversations are dominated by words like bludgeons: diet, ozempic, calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, superfoods, keto, vegan, paleo, and more.
In The Foodverse™ community, we focus on a distinctly different vocabulary:
Love, joy, consciousness, intention, self-empowerment, informed understanding™, attention, and deliciousness.
I inspire people to build a nurturing, fun, and delicious relationship with food.
The prime objective is empowering you to create and optimize your food journey, leading to a more vibrant, longer, and delicious life characterized by physical balance, mental agility, and emotional resiliency.
Come along with me on an inspirational, fun, and tasty ride. I'll post new material every week. The format may vary, including writing, videos, and audio.
Let me know if there is anything specific you'd appreciate finding in this space.
Finally, each of us is interconnected, and I want to use my passion to encourage everyone to live a healthier, joyous food life.
Food Relationship Builder™
1. Customized Programs
Every corporation or organization has unique needs and challenges. Our Customized Food Relationship Builder™ Program will be designed to meet your specific requirements.
By focusing on your team’s distinct culture and objectives, we create a bespoke empowerment journey that can include elements of presentations, group discussions, team-building workshops, taste experiences, and much more.
From the initial consultation to the final implementation, every aspect of the program is tailored to fit your team's unique wellness journey.
Let's co-create a program that transforms, inspires, and unites your team.
2. 1-Hour On-Site General Lifestyle Tune-Up
A dynamic and inspiring session designed to rejuvenate and motivate your team towards a healthier, more engaged lifestyle.
This presentation goes beyond the conventional. It explores the joy and wonder in everyday wellness. It's not just about the what and the how of living well but focuses on practical points for living life to the fullest, even amidst a busy schedule.
3. 1-Day On-Site Team Building Workshop Including Taste Experiences and the Master Recipe™
Embark on a sensory journey with our immersive workshop, blending team-building activities around the transformative power of taste. Participants delve into the art and science of food, unraveling the secrets of the Master Recipe™—a blueprint for nourishing both body and soul.
Experience how an Informed Understanding™ of simple ingredients like olive oil and maple syrup can foster connection, creativity, and a shared sense of accomplishment.
It's an unforgettable day of learning, bonding, and discovery.
4. A One-Week on Site Training: Eating Anxiety Free—Embrace the Joy
Dive deep into a radical new food and eating paradigm with our 12-session journey, "Eating Anxiety Free—Embrace the Joy."
This program focuses on 4 Quality Living™—simple, healthy, fun, and connected. Those qualities form the foundation for integrating new patterns into our lifestyle.
We use food as the vehicle, building love, joy, and connection while challenging the fear-based narrative surrounding eating.
Team members will participate in pragmatic lifestyle exercises, interactive taste and cooking demos, and insightful discussions designed to revolutionize how we think and act about food, eating, and lifestyle.
Modules include:
Demystifying Diet: Navigating the world of nutritional advice with confidence.
A New Food Paradigm: Embracing food as an expression of self-love and a celebration of life.
Food is the Cornerstone of a Synergistic Lifestyle: Integrating eating habits that complement and enhance your life.
Confident Eating: Tuning into your body’s unique needs and rhythms.
TASTE TASTE TASTE: Every day features a new taste experience workshop. We'll investigate the holistic meaning of taste and how it influences our eating experience and overall well-being.
Digestion: It’s Much More Than You Think
5. One-Month Training-A Hybrid Approach
This comprehensive training begins with the on-site one-week "Eating Anxiety Free" program (described in point #4)
This is followed by two weeks of remote sessions, including Zoom meetings and videos that deepen the journey into Informed Understanding™, and set the stage for the last week of the training.
The final on-site week ensures that each participant has forged their own Healthy Paradigm.
This blend of on-site and remote sessions ensures continuous support and flexibility, accommodating busy schedules while fostering a profound, lasting transformation.
The goal is that at the end of the month, each team member will have experienced a paradigm shift in their approach to food, wellness, and lifestyle, resulting in a more engaged, active, healthier, and more productive life.
Reach out today to start the journey towards a healthier, more connected team.
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Listen to past Great Taste episodes here. Great Taste is a weekly hour-long radio program, in its 19th year, currently airing on community radio station KICI 105.3 FM in Iowa City, Iowa.
Show host, Steven Boss, interviews cookbook authors, food producers, journalists, chefs, and others striving to inform listeners about the personal power each individual has to create a more tasty, abundant, diverse, healthy, and sustainable world.
Great Taste-Audio Files
Kids Cook Everything is the latest book from Mark Bittman, and it is also his first book for kids. Bittman is the author of more than 30 books, including the NYT bestsellers, How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.
He hosts the "Food with Mark Bittman" podcast, and his team’s weekly The Bittman Project posts are a must-read.
Sarah is the social media manager at America’s Test Kitchen and the force behind @ahnestkitchen on Instagram and TikTok.
Her mother, Nam Soon Ahn, immigrated to the US from South Korea in the 1990’s and previously ran a successful restaurant in California.
We chat about her book A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes.
Over 20 years ago Steve Sando founded Rancho Gordo in Napa Valley California featuring products indigenous to the New World and/or the Americas. He is "The Bean Whisperer."
A fantastic chat with the extraordinary Rose Levy Beranbaum wound up 2024. Rose is the author of over a dozen cookbooks and the winner of four James Beard awards and two International Association of Culinary Professionals awards.
Vietri, the largest American importer of home decor and handcrafted tableware from Italy, is 40 years old in 2023. Its founder, Susan Gravely, chats with Steve about her new book, Italy on a Plate-Travels, Memories, Menus.
Adan Medrano, author of Don’t Count the Tortillas and proponent of Texas Mexican food chats with Steve Boss and Matt Steigerwald.
Katie Parla, dishes on Food of the Italian South, Food of the Italian Islands, and The Joy of Pizza. Don’t go to Rome without checking out her latest recommendations at
Carly Knowles is not only a certified nutritionist and coach, but she’s the author of The Nutritionist’s Kitchen. Steve’s talk with her covers two parts at the following links:
Alicia Kennedy is a noted journalist who writes on food, culture, and other topics. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Vogue, New York, and other major publications. No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating. is her first book.
EAT TO THRIVE
Please email me with any questions or comments: steve@thefoodverse.com
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