Welcome!

Welcome to the Wise Ways Cooking School blog! If you've found us, you're probably exploring ways to eat better, to cook more nutritious meals, and to improve the health of your family.

In this day of ubiquitous "natural" foods suppliers and "holistic" health information, the three things I've just listed are used all too often as platitudes by many people, organizations, professionals, and companies. But here at Wise Ways we mean what we say.

When we talk about ways to eat better, we are referring to the traditional diets and preparation methods used by healthy isolated communities for hundreds -- if not thousands -- of years, and discovered by Weston A. Price in the first half of the 20th century.

When we mention preparing more nutritious meals, what we mean is that we're grounded in teaching people how to eat real foods, sourced from local family farms and from the sea, and how to use traditional preparation methods that maximize the nutritional value and digestibility of each food -- as well as the flavor! Some of these methods include fermentation, culturing, soaking/sprouting, marinating, slow cooking, and raw preparation.

And when we say we're all about improving the health of families, we really mean it. At Wise Ways we have a special focus on the early stages of life, from helping couples prepare their bodies for conception, to teaching parents how to transition their little ones to that first bite of solid food. From preventing and addressing food allergies, to overcoming pickiness, to packing school lunches, to helping parents prepare a nutritious whole foods formula when breastmilk is unavailable, we are dedicated to serving families and parents-to-be with real health and nutrition information, instruction, and support. We even offer a special 10% discount to all childbirth and pregnancy professionals - because we know you can make a big difference in the lives of your clients by passing along the information we have to offer at an incredibly important and sensitive time.

You can stay up-to-date by checking the class schedule page of our website, by signing up for our mailing list, and by referring to the calendar listing in the right-hand column on this page.

We hope you will get involved, keep in touch, and let us know how we can offer guidance and support in your transition to a traditional foods diet.

~Hannah