We spent some time with Yumna Jawad, better known as Feel Good Foodie, in her Grand Rapids home. She shared her must-have holiday dish and some super practical tips to help us all survive the holiday season in the kitchen.
Find Yumna's stuffed grape leaves recipe here
Find the landing page for Yumna's episode here
Find The Dish's suggestion form here, or email us at TheDish@MichiganPublic.org

We spent some time with Yumna Jawad, better known as Feel Good Foodie, in her Grand Rapids home. She shared her must-have holiday dish and some super practical tips to help us all survive the holiday season in the kitchen.
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<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/lebanese-stuffed-grape-leaves/">Find Yumna's stuffed grape leaves recipe here</a></li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/the-dish">Find the landing page for Yumna's episode here</a></li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://forms.fillout.com/t/fRKCYeDpUJus">Find The Dish's suggestion form here</a>, or email us at TheDish@MichiganPublic.org</li>
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The Dish, hosted by Mercedes Mejia, brings you behind the scenes with Michigan’s most inspiring chefs and culinary talents. Learn how food connects these chefs to their cultures, and strengthens our communities, one dish at a time.
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Cooking through the holidays with Feel Good Foodie's Yumna Jawad

British-born and Michelin-starred chef Kieron Hales has cooked for presidents and royalty across 27 countries. 

He's Executive Chef at Zingerman's Cornman Farms in Dexter, Michigan, a farmhouse and event space with a restored red barn on the property. He works with couples to create custom menus—crafting farm-to-table meals or recreating family favorites—and provides them with the recipes to keep.

Today he talks with me about his favorite food memory, his mother's crepe cannelloni. It’s a labor-intensive lasagna-like creation of crepes stuffed with bolognese and baked in bechamel sauce. Plus what he takes away from cooking at the highest levels of the culinary world, and what it means to create meals that become memories. 

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British-born and Michelin-starred chef Kieron Hales has cooked for presidents and royalty across 27 countries.&nbsp;
He's Executive Chef at <a href="https://zingermanscornmanfarms.com/">Zingerman's Cornman Farms</a> in Dexter, Michigan, a farmhouse and event space with a restored red barn on the property. He works with couples to create custom menus&mdash;crafting farm-to-table meals or recreating family favorites&mdash;and provides them with the recipes to keep.
Today he talks with me about his favorite food memory, his mother's crepe cannelloni.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s a labor-intensive lasagna-like creation of crepes stuffed with bolognese and baked in bechamel sauce.&nbsp;Plus what he takes away from cooking at the highest levels of the culinary world, and what it means to create meals that become memories.&nbsp;
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How Chef Kieron Hales turns wedding meals into memories at Cornman Farms

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In Boyne City, a little lakeside town in Northern Michigan, there’s a bakery offering crepes of a quality that you'd expect to find in France. It’s owned by a classically trained French baker, Gildas Berrou. The shop offers a variety of savory and sweet fresh-baked goods, including traditional crepes made to order. Just don’t ask Gildas to add American cheese.

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Find the Gildas' Lake Street Bakery website here
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In Boyne City, a little lakeside town in Northern Michigan, there&rsquo;s a bakery offering crepes of a quality that you'd expect to find in France. It&rsquo;s owned by a classically trained French baker, Gildas Berrou. The shop offers a variety of savory and sweet fresh-baked goods, including traditional crepes made to order.&nbsp;Just don&rsquo;t ask Gildas to add American cheese.
HELPFUL LINKS:
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<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Find the <a href="https://www.gildaslakestreetbakery.com/">Gildas' Lake Street Bakery website here</a></li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Find <a href="https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/the-dish">bonus footage on our website here</a></li>
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The baker bringing Brittany-style crepes to Boyne City

Milkweed Inn is a unique culinary getaway hidden deep in the Upper Penninsula's Hiawatha National Forest. Chef Lane Regan works to craft menus that are foraged and locally sourced. We learned about what it takes to craft and execute such a remote experience, and the ways the environment shape Chef Regan's food philosophy.

HELPFUL LINKS:
Read about Lane's work at Elizabeth
The website for Milkweed Inn
Bonus photos from our visit to Milkweed Inn

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Milkweed Inn is a unique culinary getaway hidden deep in the Upper Penninsula's Hiawatha National Forest. Chef Lane Regan works to craft menus that are foraged and locally sourced. We learned about what it takes to craft and execute such a remote experience, and the ways the environment shape Chef Regan's food philosophy.
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<li><a href="https://chicago.eater.com/2022/11/29/23484010/elizabeth-closing-iliana-regan-atelier-tim-lacey">Read about Lane's work at Elizabeth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.milkweedinn.com/">The website for Milkweed Inn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/the-dish/2025-09-17/from-chicago-fine-dining-to-michigans-wild-peninsula">Bonus photos from our visit to Milkweed Inn</a></li>
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Cooking through the holidays with Feel Good Foodie's Yumna Jawad

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