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 through two cooking demonstrations to showcase modern takes on cultural classics — like a cold black-eyed pea salad just in time for the new year, and a garlicky dill mojo sauce served over spinach salad.</p> <p>Last year, Kelly LeBlanc, director of nutrition at Oldways, shared the organization’s heritage-based food guide pyramids with KHN <a href="https://khn.org/news/article/food-guidelines-change-but-fail-to-take-cultures-into-account/">for a report on USDA food guidelines</a>. It’s the 10-year anniversary of Oldways’ A Taste of African Heritage nutrition curriculum, and this year, the curriculum became part of the Department of Agriculture’s <a href="https://snaped.fns.usda.gov/program-administration/snap-ed-toolkit-strategies-interventions">SNAP-Ed Toolkit</a>, a collection of interventions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program educational effort focused on helping low-income households make healthier food choices and reinforce healthy eating habits.</p> <p><a href="https://khn.org/about-us">KHN</a> (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us/">KFF</a> (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.</p> <h3>USE OUR CONTENT</h3> <p>This story can be republished for free (<a href="https://khn.org/news/article/an-arm-and-a-leg-the-year-in-review-from-prenatal-testing-to-insulin-pricing/view/republish/">details</a>).</p> <p>
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