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Dinner with Sandro

Christina Pirello shares healthy, fresh Italian and Mediterranean recipes as well as her brassy, insightful approach to liver, kidney and heart health and diabetes prevention. Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983, Christina turned to a macrobiotic diet of whole grains and vegetables to aid in her recovery, launching the 20-plus year run of her Emmy Award-winning series Christina Cooks.

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Dinner with Sandro

Season 5 Episode 505 | 26m 46s | CC

This deeply personal episode takes the idea of cooking and eating together to a new level. In a home kitchen in Tuscany, Christina cooks with her friend Sandro, in no way a vegan, to produce a dinner from seasonal, local ingredients with the idea to nourish loved ones a vegan feast that has everyone raving. A beautiful celebration of life itself, created in Sandro’s kitchen.

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