What do people have to say about Oldways?

For anyone who loves food, the flavors of tradition are too delicious, too meaningful, and ultimately, too important to give up. No organization understands this better than Oldways Preservation Trust.
--Karen MacNeil, Cooking Light

If America's way of eating and thinking about food has changed for the better in the last ten years - and I believe it has - it's in no small part thanks to the efforts of Oldways.
--Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

Oldways has carefully studied the eating patterns of the healthiest people in the world and created food pyramids that capture the most successful diets in the world as measured by longevity and low incidence of disease like heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and diet-related cancers. Oldways' pyramids include Asian, Latin American, Mediterranean, and vegetarian diets as well as a fab fusion of these called the EatWise Food Pyramid.
--Dr. Bob's health column, Men's Journal

Dun Gifford is a remarkable, single-minded individual who is changing the way millions of people eat.
--Frank Jones, 50 Plus Magazine

Meeting your extended Oldways clan felt like coming home. I was truly inspired by the chefs' passion for their native cuisines. The cooking demos were not just about preparing recipes, but rather, sharing traditions. Seeing and tasting the local foods brought the Oldways messages to life.
--Suki Hertz, Food Network

Perhaps the motherlode of pyramids, though, is Oldways Preservation Trust... Over the years, Oldways has designed four alternative pyramids while vigorously critiquing the government's old guidelines as both scientifically weak and culturally wanting.
--Wanda Freeman, Times Record

If you've ever wondered how some of the world's healthiest and best-tasting foods seem to wind up in your favorite home recipes and restaurants these days, you'll be glad to know it's not by accident. You have friends in the business -- Oldways.
--Corby Kummer, Cooking Light

Oldways conferences and symposiums are absolutely unique experiences -- a fusion of nutrition science and practice.
--Meir Stamper, M.D., Chairman, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

To my mind, the only concerted effort undertaken in the past few years that has shown any substantial results has been the work being done by Oldways. It has a coherent message, supported by leading nutritionists.
--John Profaci, President, Colavita USA

I admire Oldways' ability to get its arms around the complex scientific and societal issues associated with "eating healthy" and present them in a manageable manner. I look forward to working with Oldways to "move the needle" of public behavior in a way that makes us all live longer, healthier lives.
--Geoffrey Raymond, President, The Mammoth Group, Welch's Grape Juice

We are pleased to acknowledge the leadership of Oldways Preservation Trust in Boston in promoting the Mediterranean diet and in developing the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid. Their intense efforts in this area since 1991 have contributed greatly to the widespread interest and acceptance of Mediterranean-style eating and living.
--Mediterranean Living in Practice Brochure, Unilever

In 1993, Oldways formulated the "Mediterranean Diet Pyramid," a revolutionary challenge to the USDA's sacrosanct "Food Guide Pyramid." The new pyramid mustered impressive scientific data to suggest that foods eaten abundantly in Mediterranean cultures—whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, fish, legumes, nuts and olive oil—contributed to a longer, healthier life.
--John Mariani, Wine Spectator

Over the past decade, Oldways has pushed the Mediterranean diet, along with such causes as a revised USDA food pyramid, traditional ways of making food, sustainable agriculture and olive oil as a healthy fat -- all campaigns pursued relentlessly and quite successfully.
--Alison Arnett, Boston Globe

Only if you had lived in a closet for the last several years could you be unaware of the celebration of Mediterranean cuisine as a healthful, satisfying diet. Much of this awareness must be credited to Oldways.
--James Mellgren, The Gourmet Retailer

Today, largely because of Gifford's skill in taking the message of the Mediterranean eating pattern to the masses, Oldways gets a lot of credit for improving the American Diet.
--Nedia Wilden, The Age

Even if you haven't met Dun Gifford, you have likely been touched by his efforts. Oldways is perhaps best known for its collaboration with Harvard and the World Health Organization to launch the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, which is the driving force behind America's widespread use of olive oil and other Mediterranean staples.
--Lisa Wolff, Gourmet News