Michelle Tam of NomNomPaleo is this week’s podcast guest! Her second cookbook, Ready or Not!, goes on sale starting today and I got to take a preview peek at it. It’s great! In this interview, we talk about how Michelle started out as a pharmacist; how she became a paleo blogger; a little about what is paleo diet; what is resistant starch; and checking yourself before you wreck yourself (your blood sugar, silly!) and one of my new favorite quotes: Work with what works with you.

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You can listen to the episode below or on Soundcloud.

Show Notes: 

• Tequila probiotics
• Espolón tequila
• Mel Joulwan – The Clothes Make the Girl (podcast)
• Pharmacy
• Starting a blog
• NomNomPaleo app
• Whole 30 program
• Self-assessment of your diet’s effect on your body
• Susan Powter (“Stop the Insanity!”)
• GrapeNuts
• Beans are great
• Plant defense mechanisms
• Resistant starch
• Prebiotics vs probiotics
• Checking your own blood sugar
• Blood glucose monitor
• 23andMe
• Fermented foods for gut health
• Triclosan
• Umami
• NomNomPaleo: Food for Humans (the first cookbook)
• Second cookbook: Ready or Not!
• Meatballs (with gelatin?)
• Serious Eats (The Food Lab interview podcast)
• Betel leaves
• Culinary tourism
• Red Boat Fish Sauce (the best)
• Amping up umami with fish sauce
• Glutamates
• Work with what works with you!
• “Asian flush”