Nutrition: Food & Culture

This week’s interview in my Nutrition: Food & Culture Series is the last of the series. It features an interview with a ten-year-old.

Nutrition: Food & Culture

This week my Nutrition: Food & Culture Series will feature an interview with beautiful women of El Salvadorian heritage.

Nutrition: Food & Culture

This week my Nutrition: Food & Culture Series takes us to Belize. The interviewee is another of my treasured elders. She has been kind and loving towards me from the very first moment I met her. She always makes sure to give me a warm embrace and expresses appreciation for our reunion.

Nutrition: Food & Culture

Featuring another of my beloved elders this week. She is the big sister I never knew I wanted. I interviewed a beautiful, educated world traveler for this week’s A Talk with the Elders.

Nutrition: Food & Culture

My Nutrition: Food & Culture Series will feature an interview with another of my beloved elders. I interviewed my Granny to get her perspective on how food in America has changed in her lifetime.

Nutrition: Food & Culture

My approach has always been to be mindful, inclusive, and respectful of the impact culture has on what a person chooses to eat and how they chose to prepare what they eat. I try not to assume that there is only one healthy way to prepare foods or that one cuisine is superior to another. I did not have to learn or be advised to be culturally competent. Though this came naturally for me, I am appreciative that more efforts are being made to expand cultural awareness in nutrition. To be honest, my insight for the need for reverence of cultural backgrounds derived from my experience as a black American and the belittling of the food (soul food) I grew up on.