Author Mike Keren loves cooking shows Finding Favorites with Leah Jones

Mike Keren, an author and clinical psychologist based in the Poconos, loves cooking shows that teach you something and haven't turned cooking into sport. We talk about Julia Child, the Galloping Gourmet and the Canadian show Wall of Chefs. Mike's first memoir will be published on October 5th and we also talk about caretaking, the AIDS epidemic, COVID and family recipes.
Keep up with Mike online on MikeKeren.com, @MikeKeren4 on Twitter
In “Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir”, author Mike Keren is plunged into a caregiving journey when his loving but difficult parents come to visit and both end up hospitalized over the course of one weekend. Keren had only recently left a career as a psychologist to pursue the world of high finance driven by his perceptions of how difficult it was becoming to deliver quality service in the current profit-driven health care environment. He, along with his life-partner, Tom, had been caregiving Tom’s mom who was undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer.
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Show Notes
Graphic Medicine
Taking Turns
The Galloping Gourmet
The French Chef (Julia Child)
Jacques Pépin
Top Chef Masters
Wall of Chefs
The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Nadiya Hussain
Mock Chestnut Torte (passover flourless chocolate cake)
Banana Jam
Homecooking Podcast
Transcript Follows
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Mike Keren  0:00  Hi, my name is Mike Keren, and my favorite thing is cooking shows.
Announcer  0:04  Welcome to the Finding Favorites podcast, where we explore your favorite things without using an algorithm. Here's your host, Leah Jones.
Leah Jones  0:16  Hello, and welcome to Finding Favorites. I'm your host, Leah Jones. It's Sunday, September 26th, pretty late in the day, because I just have been busy and not busy. This afternoon, I had brunch with friends and a Sukkot, it's the middle of the holiday Sukkot, which is a Jewish -- one of our many fall holidays, which involves a lot of nice picnics and Sukkahs, which is a type of outdoor temporary dwelling. Mostly, I've just been getting ready for tomorrow, which is the big day -- tomorrow is my lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy. So, the breast cancer will be scooped out tomorrow. I have a lot of unknowns, about how much they'll need to take. But, I trust my surgeon, I trust the team at Northwestern. I was diagnosed three months ago on June 24th, so, I am very relieved to have arrived here. 
Leah Jones  1:25  This week on the podcast, I have author Mike Keren. We're talking about cooking shows and his new memoir that comes out next weekend. You can catch him at The Book Cellar. The book "Four Funerals, No Marriage: A Memoir," comes out on next weekend, October 5th, and he's having an event in Summit, New Jersey. It's a closed event, as you'll hear us talk about, for COVID safety. But on October 7th, 7:00 pm Central Time on Zoom, he is participating in a caregiving panel with the Book Cellar, that is really exciting. Ben Tanzer, who's a publicist and podcaster, is going to be moderating the panel. I will link to the information on his website. 
Leah Jones  2:16  Today, I did have to cancel an interview that was supposed to happen today. So hopefully, I will have one for you next weekend. We've had a lot of -- our power has been going in and out -- I don't know if it's in Ravenswood, or if it's in my apartment. But I didn't trust that I would have power for a full hour to be able to record an interview this morning, because last night, the power went out like five times -- it's a little spooky. But, it's not the highest thing on my list of things to deal with. So, I hope that you will enjoy this conversation with Mike. I will report back next week about how the old lumpectomy went. I'll get pathology results at the end of the week. They'll re-stage if they need to. I'm just really grateful for friends and family who have been checking in on me, helping me get ready for