For communities of color, the experience with dietitians and health care providers can involve suggestions to forego traditional foods and adopt new eating patterns to improve their health, with little to no regard for the cultural significance of traditional foods.
Culinary nutrition therapy, via one-on-one or teaching kitchens, is more than simply demonstrating how to cook and prepare food. It’s a medium for translating abstract nutrition concepts into concrete, real-life practices and behaviors.
Every day our food conversations are becoming more interesting, intense, and challenging. Consumers are working on wellness, pondering plant-based, suffering from stress, and striving for sustainability.