53: Chef & Entrepreneur Camilla Marcus Champions Great Taste with Less Waste

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, chef and hospitality entrepreneur Camilla Marcus shares her insights on sustainable food practices and moving toward a zero-waste lifestyle. Founder of NYC-based restaurant turned upscale provisions company west~bourne, Camilla also co-founded of ROAR (Restaurants Organizing Advocating Rebuilding) and is a founding member of the Independent Restaurant Coalition. Camilla and Morgan chat mom-to-mom about raising environmentally aware children and the environmental and health impacts of eating real vs. processed foods. Camilla also shares her philosophy of “honoring nature as nature intended” and offers tips on how to use zero-waste tools at home.

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0:00.0	where I see the future of wellness and sustainability is about kind of leapfrogging the industrial
0:05.2	revolution.
0:08.4	Hello, everyone. I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and host of the Primal Kitchen
0:12.5	podcast. Today I'm chatting with celebrity chef, activist, and founder of Zero Waste, Sustainable
0:18.4	Kitchen Provisions brand Westbourne.
0:25.3	Camilla Marcus, who has dedicated her life to being as environmentally friendly as possible inside and outside the kitchen.
0:27.5	Camilla founded a zero waste restaurant in New York City turned L.A.-based kitchen provisions
0:31.9	brand.
0:33.0	She's also helped countless celebrity clients implement ingenious hacks to reduce food waste and cook more
0:38.2	sustainably. Today, she's going to share some of the little things that everyone can do in their
0:41.9	own life to live a greener, cleaner, and more socially responsible life. Before we get started,
0:46.4	a brief reminder that any and all opinions and views shared by hosts and guests on this podcast
0:50.3	are the speakers on and do not represent the view of Primal Kitchen or its affiliates or parent company. Hello, welcome to the podcast. Camilla, how are you? I'm good. How are you?
0:59.5	I'm so good. We're so happy to have you here. I love a fellow avocado oil enthusiast and a thought
1:05.2	leader in the regenerative space. So these are like two of my favorite things, as you can imagine.
1:09.7	So, film me in. How did you get started down this path?
1:13.8	I think all routes really, all roads really lead to my roots.
1:17.6	Growing up in Los Angeles, California, actually, Mrs. Gooch was my neighbor growing up,
1:23.0	and she was sort of the Whole Foods predecessor when, you know, no one was talking about natural grocery.
1:28.5	And, you know, I grew up in this microcosm of really understanding that planetary and personal health is really one and the same.
1:35.7	And really, I think as I went through, you know, adolescence and early adulthood and started working in food, really seeing how there's such a disconnect, right? And you go
1:45.6	down the grocery store aisles and it doesn't really look the way that it should, but that was
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