Yolanda Hawthorne

Yolanda combines a lifelong passion for food, design and the healing arts into her position as the Weston A. Price Foundation's membership coordinator. Yolanda graduated from The Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City where she studied under the tutelage of Annemarie Colbin, who introduced her to Sally Fallon’s book Nourishing Traditions, which totally changed the way she viewed “healthy eating”. In addition, she studied at Gulliver’s Living and Learning Center (now The Institute for Integrative Nutrition) and the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute in Puerto Rico. Yolanda co-founded Zenful Bites in 2012 where their sole purpose was to address these components of the food system: food education, access and sustainability via community outreach, cooking classes/demos and after-school programming. This all came to an abrupt end during COVID. At WAPF, Yolanda is able to incorporate her love for hospitality by greeting cheerful members and by cooking for WAPF staff at bimonthly staff meetings. As resident chef she’s able to cook for and work with the Queen of Ancestral Cooking, our very own Les Dames d’Escoffier, Sally Fallon Morrel, which Yolanda says has been one of the highlights her career.