Culinary Innovation in Food as Medicine with Kendra Nicole Stephens

Welcome back to The Marian Flaxman Network Podcast. On today's episode, a conversation with chef, innovator, and food as medicine advocate, Kendra Nicole Stephens. Kendra has been a chef for more than 20 years, following her passion for experimenting in the kitchen as a child, to running her own cookie business after college. She rose in the ranks of the pastry world, before pivoting to focus on her passion for local, sustainable, health-promoting food. Now, she is the Director of Culinary Operations and Innovation at Christ House, a respite for unhoused men in Washington, DC. There, she uses local, seasonal, fresh ingredients to creatively craft healing meals for their residents. In this role, Kendra exemplifies the importance of chefs in the food as medicine movement. In this conversation, we disucss how her experience and identity as a chef, and her passion for fresh ingredients, impact her operations, and why it is important to her that the food be just as delicious as it is healthy. To learn more about Kendra and her work, or to connect with her, find her on LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendra-nicole-stephens-431630152/ For more information on Kendra's work at Christ House, please visit https://christhouse.org/ Connect with Marian on Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/marian-flaxman/Learn more about our sponsor- www.informedsolutionsconsulting.com Learn more about Marian- www.marianflaxman.com