THE
OLDWAYS TABLE compiles more than 15 years of groundbreaking work
into an accessible food reference, filled with the flavors,
preparations, and lessons of the world's great cuisines and cooks. An
eclectic resource to be sampled or savored, THE OLDWAYS TABLE is a
treasury of great recipes, a dietary guide, and an informed tribute to
the world's most influential food traditions. From the Publisher
"If I were asked to name the one group that has most influenced the way we eat today, my answer would be Oldways. It would certainly not be the nutrition establishment, which, in 1988, the year Dun Gifford thought up Oldways, was still promoting the politically inspired USDA food groups, condemning every type of fat, and prescribing diets that nobody on the face of the earth ever ate. With the nutrition department at Harvard, Oldways and Gifford discovered the Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil and rich wine, and promoted its life-giving properties in the most innovative ways. Here we have recipes from some of the prophets who understood this all along--Paula Wolfert, Carol Field, Nancy Jenkins, many others. Their subsidiary discoveries are just as important--do you realize that eating chocolate does not raise your cholesterol?"
--Jeffrey Steingarten, author of The Man Who Ate Everything