Nutrition Class, Asheville Style

For most of his adult life, my dad's diet consisted mainly of processed meats, Tareytons, and DDT. While he's still kicking at nearly 70, he's hobbled by many of the maladies associated with the Western diet. He certainly never attended a nutrition class like the one offered at Asheville's own Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, although, for his sake, I wish he had.

Recently, as part of my ongoing summer series on The Roots of Herbalism, I sat in on a nutrition and organic foods lecture at the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. The highly informative class was conducted by Sandi Ford, a clinical herbalist at Healing Savvy and an instructor at Chestnut School.

While this blog isn't the venue for a full-fledged discussion of nuitrition and organic farming, my mention of Ford's class does provide an excellent excuse to mention a number of books on the subject of nutrition that Ford recommends including: The Nutrient Dense Eating Plan and The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods.

Food-related paper, of course, is a popular genre of ephemera collecting. Perhaps the most relevant post related to today's topic was my profile of the vegetarian ephemera collection at Harvard University. Of course, I've also interviewed collectors of cereal boxes and Funny Face drink mix ephemera, but those foodstuffs certainly wouldn't make Ford's list of good eats.