Let's Talk About Food

Sara Baer-Sinnott & Oldways

Episode Summary

Sara Baer-Sinnott is the President of Oldways, a nonprofit focused on improving public health through cultural food traditions and lifestyles. If you think you haven’t heard of Oldways, you are wrong. Oldways’ tentacles touch almost everything you think about food today. It was the organization that brought the Mediterranean Diet to the forefront, the champion of whole grains in food products – and the creator and convener of a wide swath of the “culinary community” inviting huge bands of chefs, writers, retailers and food producers from all over the world to gather together to revere and preserve the value and joy of artisanal food – in short…the Oldways.

Episode Notes

Sara Baer-Sinnott is the President of Oldways, a nonprofit focused on improving public health through cultural food traditions and lifestyles. If you think you haven’t heard of Oldways, you are wrong. Oldways’ tentacles touch almost everything you think about food today. It was the organization that brought the Mediterranean Diet to the forefront, the champion of whole grains in food products – and the creator and convener of a wide swath of the “culinary community” inviting huge bands of chefs, writers, retailers and food producers from all over the world to gather together to revere and preserve the value and joy of artisanal food – in short…the Oldways.

Culinary folks from today's episode:
Rick Bayless
Madhur Jaffrey
Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Corby Kummer
Tim Lang
Elisabeth Luard
Marion Nestle
Maricel Presilla
Jeffrey Steingarten
Faith Willinger
Paula Wolfert
Naomi Duguid
Susan Loomis
Melissa Clark
Ihsan and Valerie Gurdal
Anya von Bremzen
Bobby Flay
Gordon Hamersley
Jessica B. Harris
Joan Nathan
Fred Plotkin
Martha Rose Shulman
Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Lorna Sass
Molly Stevens
Nora Pouillon
Barry Estabrook
Rux Martin
Annie Copps

Photo courtesy of Oldways.

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