01Five decades in nutrition
The people who built American nutrition. In their own voices.
Bonnie Jarrett Thiele put the field's founders on the air in 1978 and on her conference stage for thirteen years after that. She kept the tapes — an audio record of a movement, made by the people who made it.
02What's here
One archive, three ways in
The Archive
Radio interviews, conference keynotes and television episodes, catalogued speaker by speaker — including the ones we cannot yet publish.
Browse the catalogue →The Podcast
Bonnie and her daughter Beth on supplements — what's actually in the bottle, where the claim came from, and whether it holds up.
Listen →03From the archive
The pioneers
Nobel laureates and self-taught crusaders shared these stages. We document all of them — plainly, with the record intact.
Beatrice Trum Hunter
Published The Natural Foods Cookbook in 1961, a full decade before the natural foods movement existed, and spent the next fifty years as its most careful journalist.
Read more →Emanuel Cheraskin
Chairman of Oral Medicine at UAB, author of 700+ scientific papers and 17 textbooks, and the man who coined "psychodietetics" — the argument that diet shapes mental state.
Read more →Linus Pauling
Coined the term "orthomolecular" in 1968 and gave the vitamin argument its most credentialed advocate — the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes.
Read more →04Stay with it
As the tapes come online
New recordings are released in waves as rights are cleared. Leave an address and we'll write when something significant is published — no more than monthly.