Pull up a seat and grab a plate! At this virtual table we center food as connection, storytelling as medicine, and pleasure as resistance! We hope you are hungry.

We are grateful to have D. Anaya as our special guest on this episode of This American Rice. She is the Founder and Creative Grief Guide at Adventures of Grief Girl, Co-host of Grief after Dark Podcast, and Indie Publisher, AGGink. As a Grief Guide, D. uses over 35 years of performance arts research and experience in visual arts, storytelling, poetry, puppetry, physical theatre, painting, photography, book making and journaling to encourage bereaved (mothers) to consider “play” as a healing experience. She is a true innovator, creator, and healer. Through multisensory installations, live performances, and grief talks, D inspires creativity and a passion for surviving crisis through creative means.

D. shares a recipe that is simple, spicy, and warming - The Mystic Fireball. This drink is perfect as we head into shorter days, darkness, and coldness. Whether enjoyed hot or iced, with whiskey or without, the spicy notes and delicate cream of The Mystic Fireball help us find a good excuse to slow the F down and breathe.

Grief is truly complex and in this conversation with D. we explore its many dimensions. D. shares insight on her practices and rituals that help to uplift and empower individuals (and herself) to take ownership of their human experiences, create play and pleasure as a ritual practice, and to share their own stories with others in solidarity.

About this podcast: Each episode of This American Rice features one of our favorite co-conspirators who will share personal stories about the (sometimes messy) intersections of culture and identity, personal practices, and a delicious recipe we can all enjoy together. By sharing these simplest of pleasures we are weeding out the legacy of manifest destiny.

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Episode Music from Pixabay:

Together Forever, Anton Vlasov

Jho Deep - Rain, Mepa ExyZ