On the fourth episode of The Cookbook Collective podcast, we get real about the extremes of veganism and how they are a misrepresentation of veganism as a whole!   Veganism is an individual lifestyle choice. So... when we hear that people are reprimanding others for their own food choices, we get a little concerned.    We do a deep dive on Alkaline Vegan Culture, a sub-category of veganism that prioritizes raw foods and uses pseudoscience to create a highly-restrictive and dangerous diet that...

On our third episode of the Social Media Food Culture series, The Cookbook Collective creates a new phenomenon: rice cracker culture   But this episode is much more than Quaker Oats, we get real on how false nutrition myths have normalized malnutrition among young adults. This "culture" fetishizes "low-calorie," "low-carb" food that gives young adults the false promise of rapid weight loss to meet the repetitive, and unrealistic, body image expectations we all feel pressured to meet.    This...

Okay, Sweetgreen. What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of these types of food companies?    Well, what we see is inaccessibility and inequality. In the second episode of our Social Media Food Culture series, we talk about how whiteness and wellness have altered our behaviors and access to nutritious foods in America.    We are gonna get real and relate food to topics such as intergenerational trauma, food media accountability, and wealth inequality's impact on food access...

Diet culture. Something we all know, and don't really love.    In the first episode of The Cookbook Collective podcast, we get real about our experiences will falling into diet schemes, mental health spirals, and our own journies in understanding the toxicity of diet culture on social media.    Conversations like these are sensitive, but we are here to provide the community support needed to fight the prevelance of diet culture in our day to day lives. Some things you'll learn about in this...

Hey everyone! We are a group of young adults who connected over our mutual love of and struggles with food. Many zoom calls and text messages later, we realized we weren't alone and that's why we have created The Cookbook Collective! We are so happy you are here and can't wait to create a fun, and safe, food community together. The Cookbook Collective is an online community that hopes to communicate the realities of food relationships for young adults. We are here to help our generation build...