Group Living: Reimagining Home & Family

For our first episode of the new year I wanted to share my conversation with one of the most delightful guests I've had the pleasure of speaking with: Lola Milholland, author of "Group living: and other recipes." It's part cook-book, part memoir, and wholly a manifesto for rethinking how we live. For as long as Lola can remember, her home was always brimming with people: from her parents' eccentric friends stopping by for an impromptu dinner party, a steady stream of foreign exchange students, to a group of Tibetan monks. Today, Lola lives in a communal home with her brother and house-mates, where they all share resources, labor & responsibilities, and delicious home-cooked meals every night. Lola lives in Portland, Oregon, and runs Umi Organic, a noodle company with a commitment to providing nutritious public school lunches. In our conversation we talk about everything – from her non traditional upbringing by her iconoclastic hippie parents, organic farming and how she came to run a noodle making business, nuclear families - and nuclear war - her obsession with mushrooms, and what really is at the heart of her memoir: that perhaps it is never too late to begin reimagining some of the structures at the very center of our lives – that is, how we live, whom we live with, and what constitutes family.

To learn more about Lola and her work please visit her website at https://www.lolasbeef.com/

To try Lola's delicious noodles please visit their website at https://www.umiorganic.com/