HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker

Mm-hmm Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. So I'll admit that I'm a total sucker for trendy diets. I've tried paleo, gluten-free, whole thirty, keto, intermittent fasting, vegetarian, vegan, you name it. I've done it. And the thing is, in each case, I actually benefited from sticking to those diets. And while I pretty much eat everything these days, those diets have really helped me organize the way I cook, and I should mention here, in our family, I do all the cooking, but

It means I get a free pass when it comes to the dishes. Anyway, back in 2014, when I was trying to eat a strictly paleo diet, I came across a cookbook called Against All Grain, and that book completely blew my mind because it was full of recipes I could cook for my whole family and eat a grain free, dairy free, sugar free diet. The book's author, Danielle Walker, wrote the book because she struggled with an autoimmune condition called ulcerative colitis.

And she found that changing her diet in a pretty dramatic way allowed her to control the symptoms. Over the next few years, Danielle built her brand of cooking into a business. A business that today publishes cookbooks, sells spices, offers cooking courses, and much more. Her newest cookbook is called Healthy in a Hurry, and a lot of the recipes are inspired by her grandma's recipes. You know, I grew up in a family that used food to gather. Uh my grandmother, my dad's mom, is Italian. We grew up in the Bay Area.

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