Gu Qi Side Dish with Dr. Crystal Cliff

Chi Chi Chocolate: A Mission of Accessibility

What do you do as a Chinese Medicine practitioner when the taste of Chinese herbal formulas prevents them from being taken as prescribed?  You put them in chocolate of course!!  Chi Chi Chocolate is a line of chocolate bars made with Chinese herbal formulas and dark, milk, or white chocolate -- all organic ingredients combined with millennia of healing wisdom create a bar that not only tastes good but is good for you!  This episode chats with two of the three founders of Chi Chi Chocolate and discusses their inspiration and vision for accessibility for all.

Chef Sam Diminich: Food Is The Language of Change

Chef Sam Diminich is an award-winning chef, winner in Beat Bobby Flay and shinning jewel in the crown of [Queen] Charlotte, NC.  Join us through his life journey from working in family restaurants, to addiction, homelessness, near-death beating in a drug house and the ultimate life turn around where food was the medicine that helped him heal, recover and a mission so strong that he had to build a restaurant around it.  Join us in this convo with a man on the rise.

Chef Craig Nephi: Healing Colonization on White Mountain Apache Land

Chef Craig is an Apache/Navajo chef from the White Mountain Apache land in Northeastern Arizona.  This interview with Chef Craig discusses his culinary training and his return to White Mountain Apache land in order to return Apache foods to Apache lands and heal the effects of centuries of colonization.  His Café Gozhóó is part of an addiction and recovery center where he trains program participants in culinary arts and in recovery of their dignity and culture via food.  Chef Craig is the epitome of Food Medicine in his use of food to heal himself, his community and his culture.  He, and his Café Gozhóó is the recipient of the first Food As Medicine Certification from Gu Qi To Go & Phoenix Moon Acupuncture & Apothecary, LLC.  Photo credit: Ari Carter Craig