Healing In Public: Sarma Melngailis on Life After Netflix
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Just before Netflix premiered its sensational docuseries \u201cBad Vegan,\u201d Sarma Melngailis spoke exclusively with ALBC about all the shit she endured with culty conman Mr. So-called Fox. Go back and check out that episode for the grisly details and now foreboding hope that Netflix would shed light \u2013 not shade \u2013 on the confounding circumstances that led to the demise of Sarma\u2019s brand One Lucky Duck and her beloved restaurant Pure Food and Wine. If you didn\u2019t already know it, Pure Food and Wine was hip, sexy, nutritious, and delicious. It was raw vegan food with style in Gramercy Park. Manhattan where, on any given night, you could run into Janet Jackson, Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, or Alec Baldwin. It was the shit. Until it wasn\u2019t.\xa0
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Netflix was ready.
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Through all the pomp and circumstance, we at ALBC can\u2019t help but look into the dark side of cult survivor narratives turned entertainment. Now that the trauma-coaster of \u201cBad Vegan\u201d has slowed, we thought it important to let Sarma set the record straight.\xa0
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Check it out.
Sarma Melngailis is brilliant. She grew up in Newton, MA, graduated with two economics degrees including one from the Wharton School. She rocked the financial world at Bear Stearns and Bain Capital. And she dabbled in high-yield investment funds before realizing finance in late-stage capitalism fuckin sucks so she left to get a degree in feeding people from the French Culinary Institute. Thus began her life in the world of food. Upon discovering raw vegan food, she decided \u2013 with a partner \u2013 to open Pure Food and Wine; chronicled her transition from eating whatever/everything to eating only raw vegan food in Raw Food Real World; and then wrote Living Raw Food. Now, she lives in Harlem with her rescue dog, Leon. We love \u2018em both dearly.
You can find Sarma on Twitter, Instagram, and her own official website.
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Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames
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