A Restaurant Rating Guide based on the dietary principles of the Weston A. Price Foundation
Dr.Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition.” In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them- the isolated “primitives.”
The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected-nutritional deficiencies.
Price traveled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.
When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples he found that they provided at least four times the calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats. Read more about Dr. Price on the main WAPF website.
This site is meant to help people find at least acceptable food when they are in an area without many options. And it’s also meant to highlight those establishments that are really doing great things. An establishment can earn one “spoon” for each of our 12 criteria they meet. A 1-Spoon establishment signals a place where that busy traveler will find at least a few acceptable dishes, whereas a 12-Spoon establishment signals a place that truly gets it; that’s doing everything right. We hope that as the site gains traction and food purveyors learn of it, they’ll want to know our criteria and how they can earn a higher score. We look forward to a day when there will be a number of high-scoring establishments in every locale, at a variety of price points.