Podcast appearances and mentions of melissa d'arabian

Local celebrity chef, author, mental health advocate, and television host Melissa d'Arabian joins us via Zoom for Mental Health Awareness Month.

I had such a great discussion with Melissa d'Arabian for this episode. Today we round out Suicide Prevention Month by talking about Melissa's reflections and perspective as someone who lost her mom to suicide when she was in college. Melissa has appeared many times on the Food Network, first as the season five winner of “The Next Food Network Star,” then as the host of her own show, “Ten Dollar Dinners,” and more recently on several of their other shows. I first remember watching her on “The Next Food Network Star” and rooting for her to win, as she was so relatable to those of us who are busy parents trying to feed their family day in and day out. It is because of her work as an advocate for suicide awareness that I invited her on this show this week. Of course, we do talk about feeding families a bit, too, as that is also something that widowed parents deal with every night of the week. Some topics Melissa and I discuss include: Some memories of her mom, including learning to love food and cooking from her; How the scaffolding of her entire life collapsed after her mom died; Wishing she had an adult to provide guidance, including on practical matters like paying for school; Learning to cherish female friendships in the years after her mom died; The difference between “Happiness” and “happiness;” The fact that people tend to talk about suicide in whispers, and how important it is to talk about it openly instead; Melissa's thoughts on the struggle often faced by busy parents to get dinner on the table every night; Some tips for simple, nutritious, mood-supporting foods that can easily be incorporated into our busy lives; and Her role advocation for suicide awareness with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. I hope you enjoy my discussion with Melissa d'Arabian. -=-=-=-=- Thank you sponsors & partners: Audible - Get a FREE audiobook and 30-day free trial: www.audibletrial.com/widowedparent BetterHelp - Talk with a licensed, professional therapist online. Get 10% off your first month: betterhelp.com/widowedparent Blue Apron - Special offers for listeners of the podcast: jennylisk.com/blueapron Support the show: Patreon, Merch, and More -=-=-=-=-

What if food could be more for you than simply fuel for your body? Melissa d'Arabian shares her journey with food and how it's an invitation from God; tasting grace! Melissa d'Arabian: A wife of 16 years and mother to their four beautiful girls, which includes one set of twins. She is a speaker, writer, television host, and celebrity chef. After winning season five of "The Next Food Network Star" in August 2009, Melissa premiered her inaugural cooking show, "Ten Dollar Dinners". She went on to be a New York Times Best-Selling Author with her first cookbook "Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week", which debuted in August 2012. Melissa then followed up with her second cookbook in December of 2014 --- "Supermarket Healthy: Recipes and Know-How for Eating Well without Spending A Lot". And now she is celebrating her third book, "Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves". "Tasting Grace is the book that nobody asked me to write. Nobody except me and God.” ~ Melissa d'Arabian   CONNECT with Melissa d'Arabian BOOK: Tasting Grace Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including motherhood, poverty, redemption, suicide, body image, cooking, plus so much more. Connection Introvert Motherhood Faith journey Spiritual winter Gift of joy The next big thing Identity The performer Story Invitations with food Poverty & Food Mom's death Why me? Why this book? Redemption Sorrow The Delta salad Not enough Generosity Body image Prayer Worship The bridge Show up What's for dinner? Multi-tasking Grace Mindy Cancer Legacy   CONNECT with Melissa d'Arabian BOOK: Tasting Grace   "We are, through food, given a glimpse into so much of the mystery and wonder and vastness and expansiveness of God." ~ Melissa d'Arabian #MyStrengthIsMyStory #CreateYourNow #MelissadArabian   Quotes and statements within the interview: "What brings me joy more than anything else is connection." "Being a mom of four girls has just been such an honor. I can't believe God let me do that." "My faith journey has changed. And it's had events or turning points which is much like my food journey." "The spiritual winter after my mom's death really came from my inability to reconcile her suicide." "But in her death, I really learned how to have joy without being happy." "And that gift, understanding that joy really is an inside job. And for me it's a job about me and God." "I love story, because it's universal." "It was something I wanted, I needed to learn and reconcile about food culture versus what God wanted be to feel and think about food." "A lot of the stuff that I felt yucky about with food, I realize I was creating and society was creating and God wasn't. And God was inviting me into such goodness." "The good news is the joy is big enough to house the sorrow." "Every meal has the ability to invite us into a bunch of these invitations and has the ability to draw us closer to God." "When you don't have enough of something, that shapes how you look at food." "God's invitations aren't separated out in outline form." "For those slippery slope zones, I literally just pray before I workout, because I need to keep my motives pure." "I look back at my life, and I cannot find one instance in earnest where God really dropped me." "So much of life is just showing up." "It doesn't have to be perfect; it really doesn't. We just have to show up."    What has your story gifted you? Being closer to God "My story with loss, yucky, good, bad, good decisions, bad decisions, things working out, some things not working out --- all of that has been my story. All of that has just sucked me right on up into being close to God." "So for that if it took that story to get me closer to God, then I love my story."   Resources mentioned in the episode: CONNECT with Melissa d'Arabian BOOK: Tasting Grace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darabianmelissa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissadarabian/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelissadArabian   "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!"   Subscribe to Create Your Now TV on YouTube. Listen to Create Your Now on Spotify and Pandora. Listen to Create Your Now on iHeart Radio. Click here. 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Today's guest is truly a STAR...A Food Network Star! We are with the winner of Season 5, Melissa D'Arabian and whether you are a foodie or not--this is a conversation you don't want to miss!  We talk about how she landed a spot on the reality show by creating the craziest food ever in her hot, Texas garage and how some hard experiences from her childhood set her on a mission to help those on a tight budget.  Melissa is passionate about helping others realize eating well doesn't have to cost your whole paycheck and how being hospitable can be simple. She also shares a grocery store hack that will change the way you shop forever.   In this episode we discuss: 1. The reason most of us downplay our gifts. 2. How to avoid the performance trap in hospitality. 3. What God says about food. (it's not what you think!)   Favorite quotes: 1. The magic happens when we take on a servant mentality, that we're meant to show up and use our gifts to the best of our ability. 2. The news from God on food, in my experience, is one of unity and drawing us closer into Him. 3. My thinking and work about eating best is really about strategy. It's so much less about that one magic recipe. It's really about strategy in thinking strategically about my grocery bill.   In this episode, I answer this question- 1. If God forgives me, why do I feel like He hasn't? (58:16)   Links to great things we discussed: 1. Melissa d'Arabian 2. Tasting Grace 3. Frank Sinatra playlist 4. The Greatest Showman 5. Beetlejuice 6. Getting To Yes 7. Breathe Right Strips 8. SNL Gas Right 9. SNL More Cowbell 10. Just Mercy 11. Right Here  Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :)   xo, Alli    www.alliworthington.com/podcast/melissadarabian  

Host Kristin Schell interviews chef and best-selling author Melissa d’Arabian. Melissa is an expert on affordable family cooking, and author of the book Tasting Grace. In this episode they discuss how Melissa’s career got started, her new book, and how her faith influences her approach to food. Melissa first realized her connection to food, growing up in a single family home where money was tight. While she often experienced hunger at school, she saw the sacrifices her mom made to welcome others into their home with hospitality.   Melissa and Kristin discuss the problems with the way that our society approaches food. While we are as disconnected from the source of our food as we’ve ever been, we are also food obsessed; We have celebrity chefs, and we constantly post images of our food on the internet. There are some serious misconceptions about food in a world where we won’t eat a tomato because of the sugar content but we’ll drink an artificially colored and sweetened sports drink. To develop a better philosophy and theology of food, Melissa looked to the Bible where she couldn’t find any of the guilt language our society has about food. Instead, all the language around food was about loving, welcoming, and celebrating. It was observing these tensions in our food culture and this journey in the Bible that led Melissa to write Tasting Grace.   Links/Resources:

Beth Bruno and Melissa D'Arabian talk about our relationship with food and what God has to say about it. In a well-developed theology of food, Melissa challenges, encourages, and blesses the sacred  invitation to view it differently. Restoration Counseling Center: How Your Story May be at Work this Holiday SeasonConnect with Melissa:FacebookInstagramTwitterWebsiteTasting Grace Book Connect with Beth:Sign up for a monthly City GuideGet access to my resource libraryInstagramFacebookWebsiteBook 

Embodying home cooking at its finest, Melissa d’Arabian naturally connects with today’s diverse families to offer unique yet relatable food and lifestyle solutions that are part of a bigger story about how to eat well, be a mindful consumer, and spend with purpose. d’Arabian won season 5 of “The Next Food Network Star”, subsequently hosted “Ten Dollar Dinners”, and is the New York Times bestselling author of Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week. Melissa and her family live just outside San Diego. Connect With Melissa  Instagram: @melissadarabian Links from the Show  Buy Melissa's new book!  Stay connected with Polished by: Attending a Polished event Following Polished on Instagram Joining the Polished Network Starting a Polished chapter in your area

Melissa d’Arabian is a winner of “The Next Food Network Star,” a celebrity chef, author, and mom of four. She’s is an expert on affordable and healthy family home cooking who has inspired people with her shows on Food Network.  A few years ago, God inspired Melissa to do a deep dive into scripture and prayer to evaluate the meaning of food in her life. What she discovered is our relationship with food reflects our understanding of God and his creation.  In her new book, Tasting Grace, she invites readers to appreciate food as not only a gift from God but also as a deeper invitation into his love. “Every meal we have can be an invitation into creativity, community, and patience. The fact that I could sit there and even for a moment and marvel and at least to honor everything that's gone into my food connected me more to God and it made me enjoy the food more.” We talk about how meals can bring us closer to God and how he created a food system to nourish us and delight our palates. Melissa is passionate about separating food and body image and saying no to the negative perspective often put on food.  “I want my children when they are young women going out there in the world to have the joy of a great relationship with food. And so if I talk about myself in a way that is unkind, not only are my kids hearing it, but God is hearing it. Speaking in terms of body image and all of that, I think it must make God feel sad when I reject the body he has given me. ”

Melissa D'Arabian joins me for episode #70 to talk about how God uses food to invite us into His love. Episode show notes: www.gwensmith.net/graceologie/70 FREE ONLINE BIBLE STUDY: www.GwenSmith.net/PsalmAdventure Graceologie on INSTA: @graceologie Graceologie on FB: www.facebook.com/graceologie Gwen Smith on INSTA: @GwenSmithMusic Gwen Smith on FB: www.facebook.com/GwenSmithMusic  

Recently, Melissa D’Arabian stopped by to talk about her new book, Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves. She is the winner of the The Next Food Network Star, season five, and the author of many cookbooks including The Ten Dollar Dinner. In our conversation, Melissa [...]

Season 5 winner of The Next Food Network Star, celebrity chef, and best-selling author Melissa d'Arabian is my guest today on the podcast.  In her newest book, Tasting Grace, Melissa illuminates sixteen invitations we receive related to food and how God uses it to transform our lives and share with him in the process of creation.  The book and our conversation challenged me to look at the role of food and meals completely differently.  You can connect with Melissa at her website www.melissadarabian.net or on facebook and instagram.  Tasting Grace is available anywhere books are sold.

Melissa d'Arabian is a season five winner of the food network star on television and hosts a popular show called “Ten Dollar Dinner.” She joins the conversation with podcast host, Carrie Robaina to talk about how you can appreciate food and grace in today’s society and shares about her new book, “Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves.” Join us for a conversation that will help you make dinner time with friends and family more meaningful! This Week's Takeaways  Melissa has been working with food for over a decade. She has a desire to see food the way God sees it and this has led her on an exploration for understanding His heart for it all.  God’s generosity is made delicious through food. He gave us different types of food to enjoy because He loves us!  Jesus didn't just feed people, He ate with them. Food is a way that enables relationship to happen and when we practice hospitality, we are inviting people to embrace community.  Hospitality is not about separation or impressing, it’s about unifying and coming together.  Do you have children that seem to have taste buds that only like salty, sweet, and junk food snacks? If so, don’t worry, there’s so much grace! Children have been taught through the years to like these kinds of foods. Be patient in the process of growing into a healthy eating lifestyle with your family.  Click here to purchase Melissa d’Arabian’s new book, “Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves.” Shop Carrie's Favorites She Walks In Truth Resources: http://carrierobaina.com/shewalksintruth Podcasting Gear: http://carrierobaina.com/podcastinggear Business Tools: http://carrierobaina.com/businesstools Healthy Snacks: http://carrierobaina.com/healthysnacks Get Connected  Connect with Carrie on Facebook by clicking here or on Instagram by clicking here.  Connect with Melissa d'Arabian by clicking here. Ask Carrie and Kailey  We're so excited about a new feature we've added to the podcast with our content manager called, "Ask Carrie and Kailey." Every few weeks we are going to answer your questions about faith and life as well as “get to know us” questions too! Whether you have a serious question about faith and life or a goofy question for either of us...ask away. So, I want to know.  Do you have a burning question? If so, send an email to info@carrierobaina.com and ask away!

Our fall kitchen series is designed to help inspire and equip you to get dinner on the table. Meal time matters. Studies show that families who set aside time for family dinners reduce their children's risk of destructive behaviors and foster belonging, safety, and confidence. But let's be honest. We also want our food to taste good when we gather around the table! Today Melissa D'Arabian joins us for Part 2 of this two part special series with tasty recipes and helpful ideas. Winner of Season 5 of The Food Network Star, Melissa is no stranger to the kitchen or to creating delicious meals for the masses and also for her family of six. Whether you are cooking for a crowd, or cooking for a small few, this episode will underscore the value of the table in your life.

TO|GATHER - and evening of Words & Worship. Melissa d'Arabian & Sarah Harmeyer share about loving others (as well as ourselves) through food and faith. SaySomething joins forces with other ministries & platforms for TO|GATHER. First up, Sarah Harmeyer. Sarah Harmeyer is Founder and Chief People Gatherer at Neighbor's Table. As a conference speaker & influencer – Sarah has inspired countless people to break bread & walk life together. Connect with Sarah at neighborstable.com

Melissa d'Arabian, Food Network Star & NYT best-selling author chats with us about the powerful ways food can play a role in our relationships - not only with people traveling alongside, but with ourselves & with God. Celebrity chef, television host, best-selling author, speaker, writer and mom of four Melissa d’Arabian is an expert on affordable and healthy family home cooking. Her NYT best-selling cookbooks have helped thousands of families prepare easy, healthy meals. Now, in her newest book – Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves – she shares how food not only fills the stomach, but also the soul. Find Melissa at melissadarabian.net or @melissadarabian on Instagram

Affiliate links are used in this content.   Thanks to VistaPrintfor sponsoring this episode of CTL. Get 500 high quality professional business cards for only $9.99 when you order from VistaPrint.com/LOVELY.   This week’s episode of CTL is also sponsored by Grove. As a CTL listener, you can get a FREE 5-piece Mrs. Meyers fall cleaning set at Grove.co/LOVELY, plus free shipping and a free 60-day VIP trial with your first order.     This week’s episode of CTL is brought to you by Away Travel. Use promo code LOVELY when you order from AwayTravel.com/LOVELY20for $20 Offan Away Suitcase. Show Notes-  This week on Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Koppa interviews Melissa d'Arabian, author of Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves. Melissa has been a Food Network host and has written numerous columns and articles on food, in addition to being a wife and mother. In today's episode MacKenzie and Melissa chat about all things food and faith, including: Melissa shares a little of her own journey of seeking God's heart in the area of food How Melissa came to realize God's use of food to draw her and others closer to Himself Learning to see the significance of food as a picture in God's kingdom story Getting in touch with the creative nature of God through exercising our own creativity How Melissa stayed sane during the Food Network Star filming and competition   Cultivating an attitude of faith amidst the unexpected in our every day Learning the lesson of patience from food and taking it into our lives Melissa's experience in France and how that shifted her perspective on food Getting back in touch with the gift that food is by growing something yourself Melissa's mindset in using her own competitive advantage on Food Network The benefits of training in improvisation A typical day in Melissa's life Current Lovelies- Melissa: making her drive time more lovely by connecting with her daughter and listening to podcasts MacKenzie: decorating her car interior for fall to make her drive time a little more fun Resources Mentioned- Books: Tasting Grace Podcasts: For the Love with Jen Hatmaker Lewis Howes Goal Digger with Jenna Kutcher Rise Together with Rachel Hollis The Tim Ferriss Show Movies: Greatest Showman Hidden Figures Find Melissa- You can find Melissa on her website, melissadarabian.net. You can also follow her on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterestand Twitter. Find MacKenzie- You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!  

I played it much cooler than I felt when Melissa d'Arabian sat down at the podcast table. I watched her on Food Network any chance I got and have continued to follow her career. Her new book Tasting Grace is healing and generous and important. I think it will matter to you, too. This conversation is so fun- I felt so honored to sit and talk to someone I've admired through the television. If you loved her before, like me, you're gonna just implode with joy hearing her talk about faith and food and life. She's just the best. . . . . . http://anniefdowns.com #thatsoundsfunpodcast ... join in the conversation wherever hashtags are welcome. :) 

This episode surprisingly convicted us because, well, we don't think much about food. But, good grief, what we miss out on when we see food as a way to shovel nutrients (or happiness) in as opposed to a way to know God more deeply. Food Network star, Melissa d'Arabian, invites us to the table with our creative, creator-of-food God. Through her vulnerable story and experience in the food entertainment industry, Melissa teaches us how to know Him more through eating. This is a sweet one. Highlights: "God could have created a nutrition-delivery system that was far less delicious and far more efficient that didn't require us to stop, sit, eat, prepare, and grow. But He didn't." --Melissa d'Arabian ​ "Food has a way of saying, 'I see you.'" --Melissa d'Arabian Do the Next Thing: Check out Melissa's book Tasting Grace: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LDT8BMC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Check out her site (and food books/videos!) here: http://www.melissadarabian.net Question of the Week for Next Week: What is your favorite word? ​Email podcast@lauriekrieg.com or find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurie_krieg/ For More: https://lauriekrieg.com/podcast/the-gospel-and-food-with-melissa-darabian/

Melissa d'Arabian is known for winning season 5 of the Next Food Network Star and from there her show 10 dollar dinners. From there she has written cookbooks, judged cooking competition shows and the like. We talk about her latest book Tasting Grace and the personal story that show us how something as simple as food can draw us closer to God.   Show notes at: http://christconnection.cc/podcast/   

Melissa d'Arabian, Food Network Star and Author, shares her journey with winning Season 5 of The Next Food Network Star, what she has learned about playing a game you can win and how to find something where you love 99% of what you do instead of the sometimes glamourous 1%. With her third book coming out, she gives us a sneak peek at what to expect with her most meaningful and vulnerable story yet. 

This week Richard and Jazmin are joined in their home by Chef and television host Melissa D'Arabian on a Sunday morning to talk about her husband Philippe running the NYC marathon, discuss if Food Network is for cooking or eating, and laud one another's authenticity. Remember to join us at @starving4pod on Instagram!

My dear friend Leah Marshall rejoins me on this episode to talk about one of our favorite things...food!  Food was meant to be savored and shared.  God created it for more than simple nourishment for our bodies; it is meant to be experienced.  It is a catalyst for community, a joint effort between God and humanity, and a source of joy.  In this episode, we share about our fun food experiences on our birthday road trip/cruise, food memories, the satisfaction that good food and fellowship brings, as well as our favorite foods here in the Tulsa area.  This was such a fun one to do! We reference the following in this episode: Lone Wolf, Laffa, Antoinette's Baking Co, China Garden, India Palace, Tandoori Guys, Rose Rock Creamery, Jinya, Shawkat's Bakery, Umberto's Pizza, Mandarin Taste, Wild Fork, Oceana (New Orleans), Cafe du Monde (New Orleans), Mama's Fried Chicken (Opelousas, LA), The Turquoise Table by Kristin Schell, A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester, Jen Hatmaker's "For the Love Podcast: For the love of food: Ep 03: Melissa D'Arabian"      

Episode 36: Melissa d’ArabianFood Network Star, Cookbook Author and Twin ParentThis week we had a conversation with Melissa d’Arabian. If you don’t know, Melissa is known for winning Season 5 of Food Network Star, hosting Ten Dollar Dinners on Food Network and also has several cookbooks (Ten Dollar Dinners and Supermarket Healthy). More importantly Melissa is a mother to 4 girls, including a set of twins. She shares with us her tips for managing twins (and other babies), how to manage meals and more! You can find Melissa on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter Melissa hosts a weekly Facebook show, Its Tuesday Night Somewhere. Every Tuesday at 1pm PDT/4pm EDT You can find everything Melissa does on her website, www.MelissadArabian.netIf you like this show, subscribe to it on Apple Podcasts and “like” us on FacebookYou can also find us at www.TheTwinningPodcast.comThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Our special guest is American celebrity chef, author, winner of "The Next Food Network Star", and host of "Ten Dollar Dinners" on the Food Network, MELISSA D'ARABIAN. Would you like to speak with Melissa, or have a question or comment?  Call in to the live show at 516-418-5590. Embodying home cooking at its finest, Melissa d’Arabian naturally connects with today’s diverse families to offer unique yet relatable food and lifestyle solutions that are part of a bigger story about how to eat well, be a responsible consumer, and spend with purpose. Melissa d’Arabian hosts Food Network’s daytime cooking series Ten Dollar Dinners and Cooking Channel’s lifestyle show Drop 5 lbs with Good Housekeeping. Utilizing her creative resource management techniques, Melissa’s approachable and satisfying recipes are as flavorful and elegant as they are affordable and nutritious. Her first cookbook “Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week” (Clarkson Potter) debuted in August 2012 and became an instant New York Times best seller. Melissa and her family live just outside San Diego. Follow Michael Masci on Facebook, Twitter and Periscope as we will be live streaming the broadcast on Periscope and Facebook Live. Facebook     Twitter     Periscope

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Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun has a new role as an advocate for healthy living. She talks exclusively with your national award-winning family radio talk show Let's Talk America with Host Shana Thornton about reliable food sources and organic foods. Tune in for one intriguing and timely conversation. Let's Talk America will also feature an exclusive conversation with celebrity chef Melissa d'Arabian about an important campaign to end childhood hunger. Do join us!    #LTA is talk radio with substance.    Please visit www.letstalkamericawithshanathornton.com. Thank you.   

All the news and information from in and around Orlando! News on Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld and more! We sit down with Melissa D'Arabian from Food Network about Taste of the Nation Orlando, Learn about Giraffas Brazilian Kitchen and Grill, and more!