Mango and Gnocchi Podcast (Roshni Kavate & Rebecca Servoss)

Sharing food is a language of love. It’s how we celebrate and how we grieve.

Join nurses and grief experts Roshni Kavate and Rebecca Servoss on the first Friday of each month as they ask the question “What is your grief craving?”

In each episode, enjoy interviews with cooks, creatives, and community builders and explore the power of our collective food stories to nurture us, bring us joy, and take us out of our minds and into our hearts. 

*This Mango & Gnocchi podcast trailer was edited and co-produced by Rachael Sanya.

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 Welcome to the Mango & Gnocchi Podcast. In this episode, get to know your hosts, Roshni and Rebecca of Marigolde. We are both nurses, grief experts, and avid home cooks. We’re the founders of Marigolde, a grief wellness platform rooted in food, culture, and rituals. We created the Mango + Gnocchi podcast to highlight the power of our collective food stories to nurture us, bring us joy, and take us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Join us around the table the first Friday of each month as we interview delicious conversations with creatives, cooks, and community builders who pair food and storytelling to nourish the soul.

*Ethereal Theme by Enlia | https://enliamusic.com/ 

*This episode of the Mango & Gnocchi podcast was edited and co-produced by Rachael Sanya.

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Joining us around the table in this episode is Young Cho, COO and executive chef of Simple Food Group.

Young is a Korean-American chef, entrepreneur, father, and firefighter. Young shares with us his memories of receiving love through food with his grandmother, ancestral rituals with food, forging sustainable relationships with local food growers in his role as a chef, and so much more.

*This episode of the Mango & Gnocchi podcast was edited and co-produced by Rachael Sanya.

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 Joining us around the table in this episode is Rukmini Poddar, artist, designer and author of Draw Your Feelings: A Creative Journal to Help Connect with Your Emotions through Art.

Rukmini talks to us about accessing your creativity as a way of exploring your emotions, tapping into your intuition, and finding comfort in cultural rituals.

Learn more about Rukmini and her work on her website at https://www.dearruksi.com/ and on Instagram at @rockinruski

*This episode of the Mango & Gnocchi podcast was edited and co-produced by Rachael Sanya.

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Pull up a chair and join us as we talk to Charlene Lam, a certified grief coach, speaker, and the founder of The Grief Gallery. She helps grieving people to navigate the practical and emotional aftermath of losing a loved one. And when they’re ready, to transform their pain and grief into something beautiful so they can move forward with living their own fullest lives. 

This episode will surely help you think differently about what we hold on to, and what it means to let go. Charlene takes us along on her courageous journey of going through her mother’s belongings amidst a backdrop of handmade dumplings, crispy roast duck in the streets of New York City’s Chinatown, and a sacred bottle of soy sauce.

Enjoy the episode!

*This episode of the Mango & Gnocchi podcast was edited by Rebecca Servoss and and co-produced by Rachael Sanya.

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This week, Roshni had a chance to (literally!) sit around the table with Anjalina Chugani, a Barcelona based cook and author of Rasa: Sabores e historias de mi cocina India and Soul Spices.  Anjalina shares her wisdom on building rasa-- flavor, texture, essence-- sometimes described as the juice or sap. She also speaks to us of building community, locally and globally, how a dosa for breakfast can win her heart, and of course the power of curry leaves.

*Ethereal Theme by Enlia | https://enliamusic.com/ 

*This episode of the Mango & Gnocchi podcast was edited and produced by Rebecca Servoss.

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Join us around the table with author, speaker, and science journalist Priya Joi. Our conversation is full of food memories of the flavors of Mumbai and Delhi, borne out of gravitating towards simplicity and support during grief and transition. Priya's vulnerable reflections on becoming a mother amidst a shifting identity and sense of home will be supportive to listeners in any stage of parenting. 

This episode was edited and produced by Rebecca Servoss. 

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Tida Beattie (she/her) is a Thai-American end-of-life doula, grief support facilitator, and immigrant advocate. She creates radical spaces for immigrant families, their caregivers and their grievers to receive support addressing care, loss, death and grief. Tida knows the innate power within any immigrant family - perseverance, boldness, courage, resilience - and empowers them to be seen and heard so they advocate unapologetically for their needs and their human right to live and die with dignity, comfort, safety, and compassion.

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