Nutrition Around the World: Puerto Rican Cuisine
Welcome back to the Nutrition Around the World series! We just wrapped up is Hispanic Heritage Month, but it's never too late to celebrate this rich cuisine! Today, we're exploring the cuisine of Puerto Rico-- a Caribbean island known for warm weather and even warmer people.
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Nutrition Around the World: Filipino Cuisine
April is Filipino Food Month, so what better way to celebrate than to chat about the delicious food? Filipino cuisine has a rich history that many other countries and ancient cities have influenced over the years. The evolution of this cuisine's cooking techniques and flavors has made it an absolute fan favorite!
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Fighting Against Food Waste and Elimination
Did you know that 80 million tons of food are wasted in the United States per year? This equates to 149 billion meals and 444 billion dollars’ worth of food annually! Shocking, isn’t it? What exactly is food waste, and how can we help improve some of these staggering statistics?
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2023 Food Trends and 2024 Predicted Food Trends
With the popularity of social media apps like TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, throughout this year I’ve seen the emergence of unique, eccentric, and tasty food trends that reflect cultural shifts and evolving consumer preferences in our current society. Here are just a few that I believe have shaped and will continue to shape the food culture of today.
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Minority Health Matters
In 2002, April was chosen as National Minority Health Month to highlight the disproportionate health outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities in America. Each annual observation is coupled with a theme, and this year has been dedicated to health literacy.
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Sweet Tea, Succotash, and Soulful Hospitality: An Ode to Black American Cuisine
Black American cuisine stems from eating patterns of the rural South. With the Great Migration, this cuisine spanned throughout the rest of the United States getting more and more seasoned with each region. You know what they say: “All Southern food isn’t soul food, but all soul food is Southern food”. It isn’t the buttermilk biscuits or smoky collards that characterize soul food, but the traditions of a people that overcame adversity.
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