MotherFood – Détails, épisodes et analyse

My guest today needs little intro. She is a leading expert in period health, hormonal health and an advocate for women's health. Maisie Hill is the author of best selling Period Power and Perimenopause Power, she runs her own podcast Period Power, and offers health coaching via her innovative membership platform The Flow Collective. She is also a trained acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine specialist and a doula. Five years ago Maisie gave birth to her son Nelson, which inspired a new trajectory in her work - to write, and this is how she broke waves with her debut book Period Power! I was fascinated to learn more about Maisie's journey into motherhood, her career and the role of food and nourishment in her experience of mama hood. So in this episode we cover all of those topics and more! 

You can find out more about Maisie (if you haven't already) on www.maisiehill.com and join the conversation over on Instagram with us @alissatimoshkina and @_masiehill_

If you'd like to learn how to bring food into your experience of postpartum then check out my online cooking course MotherFood at www.alissatimoshkina.com & you can support my work by buying me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/alissatim

A powerful episode that celebrates food and family! It is a moving tribute to Uyen's own family who experienced an unimaginably difficult transition from post-war Vietnam to London, but also to the very concept of Family and its power to heal, nurture and support us. Uyen's passion and genuine love for food shines through every word and will undoubtedly make you re-evaluate your own relationship to the seemingly banal daily ritual of feeding yourself and your family. We talk about Vietnamese food culture, the tradition of sharing your meals, the flavours and the deep understanding of how food nourishes your body on a deep level. Uyen share recipes and ideas for postpartum and baby weaning, and if I have another chance to experience that beautiful phase in my life, Uyen's new cookbook Vietnamese will definitely be the source of inspiration for me!

Join the conversation with us over on Instagram @alissatimoshkina and @loveleluu

If you love this podcast and would like to support what I do, you can buy me a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/alissatim

MotherFood Xmas-special Happy Christmas everyone! I am so excited to share this very warm and cosy special episode with you today! I have asked some of the wonderful guests on the podcast to record a little story for you: remembering their most special memories of Xmas as a child, their first Xmas as a mama, share their plans for this year and tell us about their must-have dish! It’s been such a joy to edit this episode featuring Emiko Davis, Aran Goyoaga, Heidi Sze, Zuza Zak, Lara Lee, Eleanore Ford and myself! The community of women that has appeared in my life this year thanks to the podcast has been the most wonderful and at times life-saving thing this year! So I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this and wish you a warm, restful and cosy holiday, no matter what ✨ all my love and gratitude 🙏🏻✨

As this year draws to a close we are all invited to draw some conclusions and uncover some learnings from this confusing and contradictory experience. If I were to name one thing that has become more important than ever, that would be Health. In this episode I speak to Avni Trivedi, an osteopath and a doula, specialising in women’s and children’s wellbeing. We explore how to understand health in a new holistic way, discuss the limitations of mainstream medicine and what can we do ourselves to support our vitality on daily basis. Avni offers tons of insight into daily practises to support our emotional, mental and physical wellbeing, and shares her experience of working with expectant and new mothers, as well as children. Combining Western science and Eastern traditions, Avni’s work is truly holistic as it bridges the relationship between body and mind.

You can find more about her work on www.avni-touch.com, by listening to her podcast Speak from the Body and her instagram @avnitouch

Share your story and connect with us over on Instagram @alissatimoshkina and visit www.alissatimoshkina.com to find out more about the MotherFood cooking course and explore recipes featured on this podcast 

In this episode I speak to the amazing Alice Zaslavsky. 

A Russian-Jewish Australia-based best-selling culinary author, educator, broadcaster and TV host, who is also a new mother to a baby girl. Alice and I, share more than just the name (she is also called Alisa in Russian), we share an Ashkenazi heritage, the memories of awful food in Soviet kindergartens, the awe for mother’s lineage and the profound love of food! Alice, a teacher by trade, took a huge risk leaving her beloved job to enter Australian MasterChef competition, which was the most important decision of her life. What followed was a succession of serendipitous events which lead Alice to where she is now - at the top of her game in food, education and broadcasting. We talk a lot about her journey and how we can learn to trust the path; how to hold on to our vision no matter what life throws at you and also what to remember when things get difficult.

Alice shares her pregnancy and birth stories, we talk about the food she ate in the early postpartum (spoiler alert: a lot of tvorog and kefir!). We discuss her life as a working mother and how she shares parenting duties with her husband. We delve into baby weaning and how to involve children in cooking early on AND we finish this 1.5-long chat on a glorious subject of elimination communication! This episode is an absolute gem full of Alice’s witty, honest, quirky and wise character!

You can find more about Alice and her work on https://www.aliceinframes.com

And join the conversation with us over on isntagram @alliceinframe and @alissatimoshkina

To find out more about my cooking course MotherFood please visit my website

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Claire pretty much embodies the very concept of mother food as her cooking and food writing is so much focused on the family kitchen. Her cooking is very autobiographical documenting her experience as a mother of 3 girls. She’s an author of 5 cookbooks all of which have the home kitchen as their main location. So I highly recommend her books to all the parents listening to this podcast. Because her books really do have the answers to so many questions we often face in our kitchens - full of practical advise, seasonal, family orientated with practicality, flavour richness and nutrient value in mind.

Claire is a really passionate chef and food writer, and as you will hear, her knowledge of and her delight in cooking is so intoxicating! I just loved talking to her and then coming back to this conversation while eating the podcast, as it gave me a very much needed boost of confidence, reassurance and inspiration to get me out of my culinary rut, in which I have been finding myself a bit too often this autumn.

i loved learning how her professional life developed and flowed into her personal life almost seamlessly. I really have been chaining my mindset around what being a working mother means to me and I have been, looking for examples in other women, as I am still new to the idea of embracing home as my creative space, and of not clearly defining work time and family time. So Claire’s example was so inspiring and brought many smiles to my face as we were talking.

Claire’s new book - Home Cookery Year - is an ode to the simple joys of cooking as well as to the sheer diversity of reasons and occasions we enter out kitchen.

So Claire truly knows what she is talking about when it comes to family cooking. This episode is full of wonderful tips and ideas, and if I were to encourage you to take away one thing from this conversation it would be the joy and the playfulness around food, and the idea of not taking food and yourself in the act of feeding too seriously - something I am certainly guilty of a lot - so for me it was a very welcomed reminder that a good meal is a lot more simple than the ambitious cook inside my head thinks it is.

Find out more about Claire's work from http://5oclockapron.com and join in the conversation with us over on Instagram @alissatimoshkina and @5oclockapron 

It is such a joy to welcome my good friend Zuza Zak back on the show, this time as a mother of two! Zuza is a Polish-British food writer, cookery author and food anthropologist. She’s the author of Polska cookbook and has her second book coming out in 2021! Zuza shares her wonderful VBAC story, discusses life as a mother of two and the challenges of parenting a 4 year old while looking after a new born. We talk about emotional intelligence and tools to cultivate patience and awareness as parents. Zuza openly shares her experiences of two miscarriages and we marvel at the magic of food and women’s cooking! Find out more about Zuza in S1 E2 of this podcast and join in the conversation on Instagram with us @alissatimoshkina and @zuzazakcooks

My guest today is Romy Gill, MBE chef, author, broadcaster and restauranteur. She’s the host of Ready Steady Cook and makes frequent appearances on tv and the radio food programmes. Romy is also a mother of two teenage girls! In this episode we talk about Romy’s family and the cultural values of being a woman in India. Romy shares her challenges during pregnancy and the early postpartum period reminding us how essential it is to have the support system around. We talk about family foods and cooking with teenagers, and what does a lasting marriage look like! Find out more about Romy at romygill.com end join in the conversation with us on Instagram @alissatimoshkina and @romygill

In this episode I talk to Eleanor Ford about her childhood filled with travels around the globe and visits to exotic food markets. We explore the importance of family culinary culture and how to encourage adventurousness around food in children. Eleanor shares her own story of being a mother while running her own business and writing award-winning cookbooks. We delve into the complexity of siblings’ relationship, share birth stories, and Eleanor offers the most delicious recipe for home made peanut sauce and chicken sate from her cookbooks “Fire Islands”. You can find this recipe on my website alissatimoshkina.com/blog and if you’d like to enjoy more of Eleanor’s beautiful food do visit her website Eleanorfordfood.com Join in the conversation over on Instagram @alissatimoshkina and @eleanorfordfood

This week sees the end of the Breast cancer awareness month, and to mark that important initiative I am sharing a very special episode with you today. It features Rachelle Poitras who is a holistic breast health expert. I absolutely love Rachelle’s insight and just the very idea of holistic breast health which hasn’t really crossed my mind, it struck a cord with me straight away. Truly holistic in her outlook on breast health Rachelle considers all aspects from lifestyle to mind set and nutrition. In this episode we discuss our relationship to our breasts and what breast health really means. We look at how we are socialised as women based on our breast size, we consider the emotional and spiritual aspect of our connection to our chests, and we look in-depth into hormone health and nutrition. We discuss how we can nourish and nurture ourselves inside and out with tips on supplements, foods, breast masks and tinctures and Rachelle also shares a beautiful practise of a breast massage. The most amazing thing that I took away from this conversation is a realisation that by taking care of our breast in a truly holistic way we take care of our body, mind and spirit. They really are an amazing portal to our wellbeing as women. Find out more about Rachelle’s work on https://www.hermetanoia.com and join the conversation with us over on Instagram @alissatimoshkika and @her_metanoia Some sources Rachelle mentions on the podcast Dr Gabor Mate Susun Weed @thelymphaticmessage Renegade Beauty Women’s bodies, women’s wisdom Breast cancer, breast health