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Rachel Kelly suffered two major depressive episodes in her early thirties. Medication helped, but it was not enough. She spent five years with a nutritional therapist studying 150 scientific papers to find out whether what we eat could shift how we feel, and the result was The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food, a Sunday Times bestselling author's most personal project. In Chinese, the kitchen is 廚房 (chú fáng): 廚 is the space where cooking happens and 房 is room, so a kitchen is simply the cooking room. 廚師 (chú shī) is chef, the master of that room, and 下廚 (xià chú) is to cook, literally to go down into the cooking, to get your hands into it. Rachel points out that the book is not called the happy diet for a reason: it is the process of cooking itself, the slowing down, the smelling, the being present, that does as much for mental health as the food on the plate.
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*⏰ TIMESTAMPS:*
0:00 - Introducing Rachel Kelly and the word for "kitchen"
1:00 - 廚房 (chú fáng): cooking room and the two characters explained
2:00 - 廚師 (chú shī): chef, the master of the cooking room
2:45 - 下廚 (xià chú): to cook, literally going down into the cooking
3:30 - Rachel on depression, 150 scientific studies, and The Happy Kitchen
4:30 - 快樂 (kuài lè): happy, and the musical logic behind the character
5:15 - 快樂廚房 (kuài lè chú fáng) and 快樂廚師 (kuài lè chú shī): happy kitchen and happy chef
In ancient Chinese Buddhism, the act of cooking was itself a spiritual practice. The chopping, the washing, the cleaning: each step was a form of mindfulness. Rachel Kelly arrived at the same conclusion through 150 scientific studies.
*📖 KEY VOCABULARY:*
Kitchen: 廚房 (chú fáng)
Chef: 廚師 (chú shī)
To cook: 下廚 (xià chú)
Happy: 快樂 (kuài lè)
Happy kitchen: 快樂廚房 (kuài lè chú fáng)
Happy chef: 快樂廚師 (kuài lè chú shī)
*👤 ABOUT THE GUEST:*
Rachel Kelly is a former Times journalist, Sunday Times bestselling author, and mental health campaigner. Her memoir Black Rainbow (2014) documents her experience of serious depression. The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food, co-written with nutritionist Alice Mackintosh, has been published in the USA and Canada. Her subsequent books Walking on Sunshine and Singing in the Rain have been translated into ten languages. She is an official ambassador for Rethink Mental Illness and SANE.
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📖 The Happy Kitchen on Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Happy-Kitchen-Rachel-Kelly/dp/1780722966
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