{"id":1233,"date":"2023-09-21T02:31:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2024-03-05T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T05:35:12","slug":"chef-suzanne-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/english-episodes\/chef-suzanne-barr\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef and Author Suzanne Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-image1233_609b58-c4 .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image1233_609b58-c4\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"882\" height=\"882\" src=\"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_6483441-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-1235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_6483441-2.jpg 882w, https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_6483441-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_6483441-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_6483441-2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><figcaption>Photo credit: Suzanne Barr<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1233_921c45-22, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1233_921c45-22[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1233_921c45-22\"]{font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-family:Roboto;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1233_921c45-22 mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading1233_921c45-22[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1233_921c45-22\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading1233_921c45-22 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading1233_921c45-22\">Chef and Author Suzanne Barr<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Chef Suzanne Barr is one of Toronto&#8217;s celebrated culinary stars who found her passion in the kitchen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Toronto and moved to the U.S. when she was four years old.  Her family settled in Plantation, Florida, where she says, &#8220;It was a place of always feeling that I didn&#8217;t belong and I knew I was going to leave and I knew I was going to leave when I graduated from high school. I ran out of Florida and raced to New York City. I was just anxious to explore who I was going to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post high school, she went to art school to study photography and film before deciding to pivot. She always had a love for music, so when an opportunity to work for MTV presented itself, she jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News of her mom&#8217;s diagnosis of pancreatic cancer was a devastating shock. &#8220;She was my best friend,&#8221; Suzanne shares on the podcast.  She moved back to Florida to care for her mom and following her death she returned to New York with a new outlook on life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her life took another turn, this time toward food after a friend gift Suzanne with a weekend stay at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yogapedia.com\/definition\/4960\/ashram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ashram<\/a> in Catskills, New York. She says the only place you could talk was in the kitchen where she was assigned. &#8220;My task in the kitchen was to help make family meals or help to make a meal. And I learned about these lentils and I learned to make quinoa. And I learned, and I listened and I disconnected and I opened myself up to something that was very healing. I didn&#8217;t really understand where it was going to lead me, but when I got back to New York City the next day, by the end of that week, I had signed up for a culinary school that was in Manhattan that focused on whole holistic diets and wellness and using food to heal you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did this new food journey take her back to her birthplace of Toronto?  You&#8217;ll have to listen to the episode to find out as well as the joys and challenges that came along with eventually being a restaurant owner and the lessons learned that are being applied to the next part of her journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also connect with Suzanne on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/suzanne-barr-291798178\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> LinkedIn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/suzanne_barr_food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/28092860\/height\/128\/theme\/modern\/size\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/ffffff\/time-start\/00:00:00\/hide-playlist\/yes\/hide-share\/yes\" height=\"128\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border: none;\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef Suzanne Barr is one of Toronto&#8217;s celebrated culinary stars who found her passion in the kitchen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":4,"label":"English Episodes"}],"post_tag":[{"value":7,"label":"Podcast Episodes"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_6483441-2.jpg",882,882,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Sheree Williams","author_link":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/author\/shereeglobalforgood-org\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":4,"name":"English Episodes","slug":"english-episodes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":48,"category_description":"","cat_name":"English Episodes","category_nicename":"english-episodes","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":7,"name":"Podcast Episodes","slug":"podcast-episodes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":51,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diasporafoodstories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}