In honor of NGI's final days at 48 W. 21st Street, we’ve dug into our archives to find some of our favorite articles written by Natural Gourmet Institute founder, Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D. This series celebrates her teachings on food, science and nutrition, which are now more prominent than ever in the better food movement. Dr. Colbin was a true visionary: inquisitive, intuitive, relentless, progressive and thoughtful. In the late 1970s, she recovered important facts about food that humanity seemed to have misplaced – namely, that what we eat directly impacts our well-being, our communities and our planet.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, many of us are planning menus, making grocery lists and starting to buy some staples.