Seasonal Cooks’ Secret Sauce: Heaping Nutrition and Cultural Zest

By Chaseedaw Giles

December 23, 2022

<br /> <span class="byline">Chaseedaw Giles</span></p> <p>Oldways Ambassadors Brenda Atchison and Glorya Fernandez walked a KHN reporter by two cooking demonstrations to showcase trendy takes on cultural classics — like a chilly black-eyed pea salad simply in time for the brand new yr, and a garlicky dill mojo sauce served over spinach salad.</p> <p>Final yr, Kelly LeBlanc, director of diet at Oldways, shared the group’s heritage-based meals information pyramids with KHN for a report on USDA meals tips. It’s the 10-year anniversary of Oldways’ A Style of African Heritage diet curriculum, and this yr, the curriculum grew to become a part of the Division of Agriculture’s SNAP-Ed Toolkit, a set of interventions from the Supplemental Vitamin Help Program instructional effort targeted on serving to low-income households make more healthy meals decisions and reinforce wholesome consuming habits.</p> <p>
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