Ancestral Recipes
Project Aims
Establish a collaborative group including patients, providers, clinical administrators, and community partners
Convene a dissemination workgroup to adapt the existing Spanish-language MyPlate recipes so they are responsive to the patient population’s language needs, health literacy levels, and local food resources and disseminate this information
Perform cooking demonstrations accompanied by nutrition education at clinics, teaching individuals how to use recipes in home setting
Ancestral Recipes (Cookbook)
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant-funded a partnership between the patient communities in the eastern Coachella Valley, the University of California Riverside, FIND Food Bank, and the University of California Los Angeles. Utilizing the food items FIND distributes to the community and USDA’s MyPlate, the recipes are tailored to ensure ingredients are available and affordable to the patient community in the eastern Coachella Valley. Community members contributed their own family recipes and chose the theme “Ancestral Recipes: From My Grandma’s Kitchen to Yours.”
Recipe Video Demonstration
Check out this video demonstration on how to make oatmeal in Spanish (left) and Purépecha (right).
