How Bestselling Author Sarma Melngailis Writes: Part Two
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Bestselling memoirist, chef, and former restaurateur Sarma Melngailis spoke with us about her much-loved restaurant, Pure Food and Wine, reclaiming her narrative post Bad Vegan, and her eight-year journey writing THE GIRL WITH THE DUCK TATTOO.
Sarma Melngailis is the founder of One Lucky Duck and co-creator of the acclaimed New York City restaurant Pure Food and Wine. Her notorious story of scandal and betrayal was the subject of the Netflix docuseries Bad Vegan—a series that left much of her story misrepresented.
Her bestselling memoir, The Girl with the Duck Tattoo, is described as a “reclamation” and “... a raw, unflinching memoir of how one smart, driven woman went from building a dream to being ensnared in a cult of one.”
Sarma is the author of cookbooks Living Raw Food and the co-author of Raw Food/Real World, and is currently in production on a new docuseries while working to re-launch her businesses. She is also graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the French Culinary Institute
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In Part Two of this file Sarma Melngailis, Milena, and I discussed:
Her professional journey from the French Culinary Institute to celebrity restaurateur
Reclaiming her narrative from sensationalist and biased media coverage
How she continues to examine the psychology of manipulation
Reliving some of the trauma of her experience by recording the audiobook
Her thoughts on resurrecting Pure Food and Wine
And a lot more!
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