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Podcast: Getting Unstuck – Cultivating Curiosity
Episode: Cassoulet — Complex, Delicious, and a Metaphor for Life
Description: Summary — Award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar found herself in 2008 "writing more about food than travel and had turned into a stroller-pushing Upper West Side Mama." Needing to "escape," as she admitted, "she decided to head to France to research cassoulet, that "slow-cooked carnivorous orgy of pork, lamb, duck, beans, and herbs stewed together in an earthenware tureen." A quick, fun story, she thought. "I couldn't have been more wrong," she discovered. Guest — Sylvie Bigar was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and lives in New York City. Her writing has appeared widely, including in The New York Times...