Guest post by Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation The 12 Spoons restaurant project is the result of a long planning period, starting with the request from several WAPF members to help them find restaurants that serve healthy food, then raising the funds, then the laborious process of building the website, […]
The 12 Spoons Criteria…What Are They?
If you are like me, the vast majority of your meals are eaten at home these days…or they are prepared at home and packed for the road. For whatever reason, at whatever age, you came to care about what you eat and how it is prepared. You even care about where it is sourced. You […]
Spoon No. 1: Serves Mostly Fresh Food!
Criterion number one: Fresh Food, Prepared from Scratch. The first spoon a restaurant or food service establishment can earn is “serves mostly fresh food, prepared from scratch.” There are three parts to this criterion that are important: the type of food, the amount of that type of food, and how the food is prepared. And there […]
Spoon No. 2: Local? Organic? Wild-caught?
The second criterion expands on the first. Does this food service establishment offer some of the following: locally sourced food? organically produced food? seafood that is wild-caught? If the answer is yes, his criterion will ensure higher nutrients in the food. Locally sourced food is food that comes from the surrounding area. “Local” has become a […]
Nutrient Dense Foods in a Mason Jar
Three Stone Hearth Community Supported Kitchen Guest blog post by Jessica Prentice of Three Stone Hearth We’re not a restaurant, but we were voted Best Take-Out in the Bay Area a few years ago. We call ourselves a Community Supported Kitchen, and for ten years we’ve been cooking nutrient-dense food, inspired by traditional diets and […]
Woods Hill Table
Guest blog post by Kristin Canty, owner of Woods Hill Table in Concord, Mass. Woods Hill Table is a full service restaurant I opened in my hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. We have 150 seats, that includes a 16-person private dining room, a 20-seat patio, a 20-seat bar and a 6-person oyster bar. I was extremely concerned […]