At Oldways, we get lots of questions about how to ensure children learn to make the right choices when it comes to healthy eating. We recently caught up with Liz Weiss, MS, RD and Janice Newell Bissex, MS, RD, the authors of the new cookbook, No Whine With Dinner: 150 Healthy, Kid-Tested Recipes…
Kristina DeMuth is a dietitian with a mission. She has been a volunteer in Haiti for a little over two years with an organization called Healing Haiti. For the past eight months, Kristina has been living in Haiti part-time working, teaching, and educating the local community about…
The new year is often a time of new resolutions future ideas, future plans, and future goals. Here at Oldways, we certainly support the notion of improvement and have lots of plans in 2018 for continuing to spread the word about delicious, nutritious food. (We don’t want to give too much…
Nancy Harmon Jenkins Remembers Where it All Began Oldways, now celebrating its 23rd anniversary, has a well-deserved reputation today as an organization devoted to promoting healthy dietsaround-the-world healthy diets, its true, but the emphasis is almost always on the healthy part rather than…
I have yet to hear of a traditional diet from any culture, anywhere in the world that is not substantially healthier than the standard American diet. The more we honor cultural differences in eating, the healthier we will be. –Michael Pollan, The New York Times Those words beautifully…
Sara Baer-Sinnott is President of Oldways, a nonprofit food and nutrition organization helping people live healthier, happier lives through cultural food traditions and lifestyles. She has been an instrumental figure at Oldways since its early days, joining the staff in 1992 to work on one of…
Toni Tipton-Martin is a woman who wears many hats: Culinary historian; long-time journalist; food activist; chef; cookbook author; nutrition educator; and cooking instructor. A former food writer for the Los Angeles Times, Toni has been digging up African American food roots for the last 25…
“I like to say that in our travels, there are some days that are more special than others. I call them ‘pinch me’ days.” -Sara Baer-Sinnott, Oldways President When you venture outside the guidebooks, you never know exactly what will be in store. What will you…
Point 3 of Oldways Common Ground Consensus on Healthy Eating states: The Scientists of Oldways Common Ground lend strong, collective support to the overall process, as well as the overall product, of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). We express condence in their approach to…
The past five years Oldways has remembered K. Dun Gifford, founder of Oldways, by honoring a New Englander with the K. Dun Gifford Local Hero Award. The Local Hero Award, presented at Boston’s Readable Feast, an annual event celebrating food, food writing, and people who make a…
Oldways very first culinary and cultural symposium in the Mediterranean was held in 1991 in Porto Carras, Greece, not too far from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. It started our long campaign to bring the Mediterranean Diet and foods and preparations of the Mediterranean to American…
Ready for a fresh start in 2023? #ChooseYourChallenge and jump start your healthy eating goals with us! Choose one of our 4-week meal plans-Mediterranean, Whole Grains, or Vegetarian/Vegan-and start following the plan on Monday, January 9th. Follow us on social media for inspiration and…
