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Recipes to Enhance Brain Function and Increase Mental Clarity

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Every so often a book comes in and I go racing home and start cooking from it. This is that book... all the more so because I was still cooking from it straight through the following weekend. 

The Healthy Mind Cookbook by our returning guest, Rebecca Katz, was created using ingredients in combinations to give us utmost pleasure and enhance brain function, mood, clarity, immunity, and skin.

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GUESTS:

  • Rebecca Katz – author of The Healthy Mind Cookbook: Big-Flavor Recipes to Enhance Brain Function, Mood, Memory, and Mental Clarity
  • Chris Prosperi – chef and owner of Metro Bis restaurant in Simsbury, Conn.

MUSIC:

  • “Gne Gne,” Montefiori Cocktail
  • “Beans and Cornbread,” Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five
  • “She's Putting Something in My Food,” Bobby "Blue" Band

Lori Mack and Jonathan McNicol contributed to this show.

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