Eat Your Words

My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today is a wonderfully engaging account from the woman who founded America’s first certified organic restaurant. It is a story of an unheralded culinary pioneer, Nora Pouillon, who made it her mission to bring delicious, wholesome foods to the American table. Nora is credited as being one of the most vivacious founders of the organic food movement, and opened her eponymous restaurant in 1979. 20 years later, in 1999, Restaurant Nora became the first certified organic restaurant, furthering her dedication to the cause, one that she’s very much still apart of today at 71 years old. In addition to chronicling her relationship with the culinary field, the story is also a feminist one showing a woman with young children overcoming a failed marriage and working in a male-dominated business. Born and raised in Austria surrounded by fresh, delicious food, Nora was horrified when she moved to Washington DC in the 1960s and discovered a culinary culture