Neil Saavedra

You're listening to The Fork Report with Neil Saavedra, on demand from KFI AM640.

If you're not familiar with the show, every Saturday we kind of just get away from the heaviness of the news and celebrate food.

The people that make it, the culture behind it, cooking at home, going out to eat, gosh, how it ties into the local economy, anything and everything dealing with food is what we look at on a Saturday.

And today, you know, it being the new year and all.

i know that we're all looking for ways to one have more good food that is good for us or more healthful as the case may be and also uh you know grab hold of anxiety or things like that because nobody wants to be stressed not to mention it's garbage on your body

So we have an author and a cook in her own right, the Sioux therapist they call her, and she's a pioneer of culinary therapy and psychotherapy or therapy, and she's a psychotherapist.

She's an author and one of the leading experts in the nation on culinary therapy, which I'm going to ask her what the hell that is right now.

Deborah Borden, welcome to The Fork Report.

First of all, you're on the East Coast.

There is another famous East Coast Borden.

Any relation to Lizzie?

Yeah.

Well, I guess we all get limitations in life.

So you are at LCSW.

My wife is also an LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker.

And you...

gravitated towards food like a lot of us throughout the, you know, Food Network and all these great food shows.

And you've combined your passion of writing, cooking and therapy together.

So what is culinary therapy?

I think that's brilliant.