Cooking Author June Hersh - Eat Well, Do Good

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