I first happened across Nourishing Our Children – a not-for-profit educational campaign of the San Francisco Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation at the first Wise Traditions Conference I attended a few years ago. It was clear to me then that the campaign’s founder – Sandrine Hahn, had a deep-rooted and very tender love [...]
Can we be well fed, but malnourished? The teeth tell the tale.
January 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
I am delighted that Jenny McGruther has invited me as a guest blogger for Nourished Kitchen! My name is Sandrine Hahn and I founded and lead Nourishing Our Children, an educational initiative of the San Francisco Chapter of the Weston A Price Foundation. On the home page of our website, we pose the question, “Can [...]
conscious conception: foods for fertility
December 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
Foods for fertility – roe and wild-caught fish, fermented cod liver oil, liver, oysters and butter – represent nutrient-dense solutions for couples who are struggling to conceive, planning to conceive and for mothers who wish to nourish her child in the womb. Prior to the advent of industrial agriculture and the processing of food, these foods [...]
Weston A Price: Findings on Traditional Foods
March 26, 2010 By 30 Comments
Weston A Price, a Cleveland dentist who, when challenged by rampant tooth decay and the considerable physical degeneration of his patients, left his practice and traveled the world researching the dietary practices of peoples consuming processed foods and those consuming an unprocessed, native diet, and the non-profit nutritional advocacy group named in his honor – [...]
Making Fat: How to Render Lard
January 3, 2010 By 126 Comments
Rendering lard is a lost art – a worthwhile technique forgotten in a fat-phobic, Lean Cuisine-centered culture. Many cooks, seeking out local foods and forgotten traditions, have rediscovered how to render lard in their homes. Learning how to render lard needn’t be a difficult task; it requires clean fat, clean water, a good stock pot [...]
Three Great Traditional Foods Videos
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
1. How to Grow Your Own Kombucha Mother. Simple enough: these guys teach you how to grow your own kombucha scoby without having to find a mother. Those of you who still want to purchase a mother can, of course, go through the Cultures & Starters Exchange or visit Cultures for Health. 2. Weston [...]
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