Do you ever wonder how the Weston A. Price Foundation first began? Or are you curious about how Sally Fallon Morell became interested in Real Food / traditional foods and if her kids ever complained? Want to know what she really thinks of Julia Child’s cookbooks? Recently I was able to chat with Sally about all this and more in a recorded interview.
Sally's a rock star in my world, so I probably should have been nervous talking to her (even though I’ve spoken with her in person a few times), but she’s very easy to talk to and real. I think you’ll enjoy this interview!
What we covered:
- Where Sally grew up and the foods her Mom cooked
- How her time in France improved her cooking skills
- What Sally really thinks of Julia Child’s cookbooks
- What led to her writing the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook
- When Sally first read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price and how it shaped how she raised her own children
- What she fed her kids and how she got them to eat organ meats
- How Sally Fallon Morell and Mary Enig first met and then collaborated on the Nourishing Traditions Cookbook
- Hear about her “crash course” on fats and oils
- The shocking information that Sally & Mary stumbled upon in the notes from the first soy conference
- Why Sally left the board of the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
- How all this led to the Weston A. Price Foundation
- What the early days were like at the WAPF and what was her biggest struggle
- What the first Wise Traditions conference was like in Spring of 2000
- The transitions the Weston A. Price Foundation has went through over the years
- What Sally sees as her biggest role as the WAPF President now and into the future
DOWNLOAD AUDIO INTERVIEW WITH SALLY FALLON MORELL – Click to play it on your computer now, or right click (control click for Macs) to save-as/download-as so you can put it on your iPod or MP3 to listen to later.
Sally Fallon Morell is a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. She is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.
Joy says
I came late to finding this interview, but wanted to say thanks so much for it. I’ve been a member of the WAPF almost from the beginning (2000), and have nearly every copy of the journals (except a couple I loaned to friends who didn’t return them–grrr), and of course, Sally’s work changed my life (and eventually my husband’s life) totally for the better. I’m so grateful to her and to that organization, and of course, to Dr. Weston A. Price! This interview filled in the gaps of some questions I’d have loved to ask Sally myself, and is a delight to listen to–thanks.
skip lafleur says
can’t access westonaprice web-site whats up how long any alternatives thanks skip
KitchenKop says
They’re working on it, I’m not sure what caused it. 🙁
Kelly
D. says
This was excellent! It was interesting to hear the “beginnings” story, which I had never known before, and how Sally evolved into writing her “cookbook” which I call a textbook.
She is in my state this weekend (Sioux Falls, SD) and I would love to have gone, but I live 300+ miles away and couldn’t possibly have made it down there in time. She’s been to Sioux Falls a few times, I guess, but I wish there were more people on the western side of the state who were interested in hearing Sally speak — maybe some day we can talk her into coming to Rapid City. That would be excellent.
Margaret Auld-Louie says
Wonderful interview! I’ve been a WAPF member for years but didn’t know most of this background info on Sally. It was really interesting to hear how she got into everything. Thanks for doing this interview.
Sheree says
I’m deaf too, please provide a transcript for this and any other audio/podcasts. As far as I know there isn’t something out there to translate audio stuff into captions. Maybe you could see if you can get video stuff captioned.
Sustainable Eats says
Awesome interview, Kelly. When do you get the real food talk show? 🙂
You are a natural!
KitchenKop says
Thanks Annette, you wouldn’t think I was a natural if you heard all the “ums” I had to edit out! My editing software is a beautiful thing. 🙂
Lisa @ Real Food Digest says
I just finished listening to the interview. Thanks for doing this!
I really enjoyed learning how all this started.
Kimberly Hartke says
Great interview, Kelly! Thanks so much.
Kimberly
Michelle says
What a great interview! Sally is also a rock star for me and I love the Nourishing Traditions cookbook. I have also been using her Eat Fat, Lose Fat cookbook for health recovery and great recipes. Thanks so much for sharing this with us! 🙂
Diana@Spain in Iowa says
This is great Kelly! Thank you!
hellaD says
Wow that was really great, thanks for doing this interview. I met Sally years ago at the first conference she did in New Zealand in 2003. I think she was still getting used to talking in front of so many people at the time, but wow. Absolutely changed my life. Nourishing Traditions is my Bible and it is always the gift I give newlyweds and whatever other excuse comes along :).
Cara says
I can’t wait to listen! Thank you for doing the interview
Tiffany@ The Coconut Mama says
Wonderful interview, Kelly! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Sandrine Hahn says
I loved this … thanks so much Kelly! I just spent a day with Sally in my loft in San Francisco recently for an all day photo shoot focused on food and food preparation from recipes in Nourishing Traditions — and I heard some of this but, not all of it! The interview filled in some blanks I had in my knowledge!
Meagan says
Kelly, I have a personal/specific question for you… I don’t see the contact for your email anywhere. Would you mind emailing me?
Chava says
What a great interview, thanks very much!
Amber says
This is so cool, Kelly! Gonna have to link to this. Thanks for asking questions I’ve been wondering about — really enjoyed listening!
Marcee says
I listened to her on the Great Health Debate! I was so excited! Now I get to listen to her again, THANK YOU!!
Tim Huntley says
Thanks for the great interview. I had recently gone to the WAPF website looking for more of that historical information. Maybe you could get them to link back to your interview?
The one thing I would like to have heard more about was the very last topic – What is the vision for the foundation? It worries me that we are still so dependent on Sally (I still want her driving the bus but want to make sure it continues after she steps away).
KitchenKop says
We did touch on that a little bit more than what I included. She said that the board would just appoint someone to take over for her, and with the board and staff in place everything will move forward with the WAPF mission statement even when she’s not here someday.
Sandrine Hahn says
I am well aware of our collective mortality but, the thought of a Weston A. Price Foundation without Sally really saddens me to think about. She has served as an incredible mentor to me personally and to the Nourishing Our Children campaign.
karen ferguson says
My take on the whole WP movement: She was a one-woman show for a long time, and gathered fans along the way, one by one. I believe she helped me save my life, my sanity, my brain from the low fat dogma. I was over 230 pounds, vegetarian, starving and irritable.
The Vancouver seminar over 6 years ago help me save my life. But I was so entrenched into the low fat dogma [raw foodism too at the end], that it took me three years to slowly shift. To my credit, however, and much to Sally’s way of being, I left that seminar, came home and with hands grasping my desk, called and cancelled my Advance McDougall, MD workshop.
I thought, I’m sure, that I was going to gain another 100 pounds eating fat. Instead, I’ve removed myself from flour, sugar and eat the WP way for over 4 years now, and have lost over 70 pounds w/ a few more to go. But I’m not worried, not in the least.
Color me happy. I feel very blessed to know Ms. Fallon and even more so to have been “rescued” by her. Ya gotta hand it to a woman that swims upstream against the HUGE! HUGE tidal wave of anti-fat docs/government and still gives conferences, still runs a website and still publishes pamplets and books for our benefit.
What I ask my friends, is not to like?? Still, I pick and choose carefully who I share this information with. Alas, manybaby-boomers thinking is back in the 60’s where we thought “fruit is good, hence more is better” and save the planet w/ vegetarianism.”
Sigh…I was sooo totally enmeshed. I even had Diet for a New America by Robbins, as a health text for my college students. I try to remember that not all students were listening or believing it and that I advocated 3 days a week without meat, using plant protein, not complete vegetarian/veganism.
I thought something was wrong w/ me…it wasn’t me. It was the dogma.
I can’t wait to read The Vegetarian Myth. Thaks Kelly for reminding me!!!
Abrasos!
Stanley Fishman says
Wow, what a great interview!
Sally is one of the only heroes I have. The information she made public literally saved my life, and has saved the lives and health of many other people. The Weston A Price Foundation is the greatest organization on earth, period.
Thank you so much for doing this interview.
Suzanne says
Sally and Alice Waters of Chez Panisse (Berkeley, CA) are two of my heroes.
hellaD says
Hey me too!
Heather M says
Hi Kelly,
This interview was great, thanks for doing it. We need more “weirdo’s” around. I, as you, am looked at like a freak with two heads. It is so plain and clear to me when it comes to food that the current system in place set by our government is not working. It is crazy that people don’t/can’t see that people at the current recommendations are only getting sicker and sicker. So….it is great to have you charging full speed ahead with the nutrient dense, whole foods thing.
Eric Brody says
Any transcripts? I’m a Deaf guy. Thanks.
KitchenKop says
Aren’t there programs that can transcribe audio for you? I’m just curious. Otherwise I can add this to my to-do list, but it’s a long list, I’m sorry if it takes me a while to get to it!
Erica says
Hi Kelly,
This was an excellent interview!!! You didn’t sound nervous at all 🙂
KitchenKop says
I wasn’t, she’s very easy to gab with, but I just meant that I prob *should* have been! 🙂
Meagan says
Kelly – the audio link to the interview doesn’t work.
KitchenKop says
Can you tell me what it does exactly when you click on it?