Imagine you are invited to a table alongside some of the smartest scientists, the most creative chefs, the most progressive food suppliers and the most ardent health professionals on earth. The conversation centers on challenging unsavory assumptions about the future of food – about growing, processing, preparing, eating, drinking, and enjoying it. You agree that the “old ways” are sounder than the “new ways” for just about everything to do with our food, and discuss ways to advocate for reviving the healthful pleasures of real food. It is enlivening, making you truly believe, collectively, we can change the way people eat.

And, of course, the food at this gathering is fresh, simple and delicious. This is The Oldways Table.

A lot has transpired since 1990 when food enthusiast and advocate K. Dun Gifford started a non-profit education organization called Oldways to combat the rising prevalence of "pseudo foods" on the market and the threatening tsunami of chronic diseases propelled in part by our poor eating habits. Time and again, Oldways has transformed a passion for sustained well-being into positive and practical solutions for our daily lives such as:

• Developing consumer-friendly health-promotion tools grounded in science, including the well-known Mediterranean Diet Pyramid and its signature book, The Oldways Table

• Creating the Whole Grains Council, which helps consumers achieve better health by increasing their consumption of quick, easy and delicious whole grains

• Introducing the Latino Nutrition Coalition, which inspires Latinos to improve and maintain their health through traditional foods and active lifestyles

• Originating the Mediterranean Foods Alliance which improves public health by raising consumer awareness about the health benefits of following the Mediterranean Diet

• Organizing ground-breaking scientific and culinary International Conferences featuring top scientists, chefs, culinary experts, and health experts

• Offering regular continuing professional education programs for RDs and other health professionals

• Serving as a credible, reliable information source for journalists, consumers and others eager to learn more about nutrition breakthroughs and timeless truths

• And much more!

   

Sharing work with convivial companions is almost as important as sharing food. From the very beginning, some of the most celebrated names in food have joined us at the Oldways Table, adding to our knowledge, challenging our assumptions, and multiplying the effectiveness of our message. While these friends and colleagues are too numerous to acknowledge here, we raise our glass in appreciation and admiration for a job well begun. Still, we have much to do.

At Oldways, we are more determined than ever to help everyone, everywhere, live longer and healthier lives. We will do this by continuing to encourage people to seek out the joys and pleasures of good foods and drinks, well prepared and consumed with pleasure, in the company of family and friends. That is the profound and worthy mission that drives us and our partners every day.

Won't you join us at the Oldways Table?
 

Click here to learn more about how Oldways creates successful changes.