Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
Sep 24, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
Food Tank is live all week at WNYC-NPR's The Greene Space to talk solutions for food, agriculture, and environment during Climate Week NYC. In this episode, we're sharing three conversations from our…
Sean ShermanGuest
Grace RamirezPanelist
Dani NierenbergHost
Bleu AdamsPanelist
Fariyal AbdullahiPanelist
Ellie KriegerPanelist
I get to sit down with my friend Sean Sherman, the founder and executive director of North American Traditional Indigenous Food System, or Natives.
It's black bean taquitos with maple squash puree, and that's being passed around, so please enjoy.
You recently came up with this ring diet concept in response to the kind of weird national dietary guidelines that are out there now.
Yeah, so I'm sure some of you have seen the Upside Down Food Pyramid that came out in January.
And so that didn't really stick with me when it came out because the day it came out was actually the same day that Alex Pretty was murdered in Minneapolis.
And so that was really kind of we were we were literally under siege in Minneapolis at that time.
So after that kind of settles down a little bit, that's when I kind of started thinking about the food pyramid again.
So I wanted to do something that really focused like for me, like our focus is on indigenous food system.
So like what would an indigenous nutritional guide look like is kind of what I was thinking.
It's kind of typically a circle with four quadrants in it, kind of going outwards.
And so the ring diet, which is another acronym, because non-profit world, and you need acronyms for whatever reasons.
I get to sit down with my friend Sean Sherman, the founder and executive director of North American Traditional Indigenous Food System, or Natives.
It's black bean taquitos with maple squash puree, and that's being passed around, so please enjoy.
You recently came up with this ring diet concept in response to the kind of weird national dietary guidelines that are out there now.
Yeah, so I'm sure some of you have seen the Upside Down Food Pyramid that came out in January.
And so that didn't really stick with me when it came out because the day it came out was actually the same day that Alex Pretty was murdered in Minneapolis.
And so that was really kind of we were we were literally under siege in Minneapolis at that time.
So after that kind of settles down a little bit, that's when I kind of started thinking about the food pyramid again.
So I wanted to do something that really focused like for me, like our focus is on indigenous food system.
So like what would an indigenous nutritional guide look like is kind of what I was thinking.
It's kind of typically a circle with four quadrants in it, kind of going outwards.
And so the ring diet, which is another acronym, because non-profit world, and you need acronyms for whatever reasons.
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