Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives

Dr. David Eisenberg & Gail Pettiford Willett at the CIA, 2010.

Welcome to my first Blog. I'm so excited to share my visit to Napa Valley to visit the Culinary Institute of America(CIA) where I was enrolled in a class given by Harvard Medical School and the CIA. The course, Healthy Kitchens Healthy Lives: Caring for Our Patients and Ourselves, is the brainchild of Dr. David Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and founding Director of the Osher Research Center at HMS, and Founding Chief of the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. It has been his dream to bring especially doctors into teaching kitchens so that they are more comfortable talking to their own patients about cooking and making the right food choices.

This four day conference included talks by Scientists, who shared their research, and Chefs who cooked and shared healthy recipes. As participants we were able to sample all of the food made by the Chefs at lunches and receptions. It was too good and I was reminded that no matter how healthy the food is portion control still matters.