Nina was born at home in Buffalo, New York in 1971. She was raised on the family farm in Virginia and fed on simple real foods like raw milk from the family cow and a lot of vegetables. At age 9, Nina sold produce at roadside stands. Business was slow. In 1980, the first proper farmers’ markets opened nearby, and from then on, the Plancks made a living—and sent two kids to college—by selling at farmers' markets.Nina left farming to work on Capitol Hill, report for TIME Magazine, and write speeches for the U.S. ambassador to London, but local food was ever on her mind. In 1999, she opened the first farmers’ markets in London and today her company, London Farmers’ Markets, runs 18 year-round markets. Tempted by England’s finest producers of roast beef and raw milk cheddar, Nina wondered about the advice most Americans get about diet. After some dutiful, dull, and unhealthy years in the vegan, vegetarian, and non-fat wilderness, she came back to real food. Nina explains it all in her acclaimed Real Food: What to Eat and Why. Nina's vigorous defense of traditional foods opened tasty doors for eaters who’d had enough of low-fat and imitation foods. In Real Food for Mother and Baby, Nina takes up traditional diets for mother, father, and child. She dismantles common misconceptions and fears about prenatal and weaning foods in typically direct style. Nina lives in Greenwich Village and Stockton, New Jersey with cheesemonger Rob Kaufelt, owner of Murray’s Cheese. They have three children: Julian (born in 2006) and Jacob and Rose (born in 2009). Nina had VBAC twins at 38.5 weeks at age 38. (It can be done.) Rob and Nina were recently married at home in Stockton. One personal note for parents in NYC - and everywhere people are looking for a different and better nursery school. The Kaufelt children attend a serene, green, real-food, child-oriented, like-no-other nursery school in the East Village. Learn more about New Amsterdam, the only Waldorf school in downtown Manhattan, at www.NewAmsterdamChildhood.org. |
  
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