Stefanie Sacks is a nationally recognized Culinary Nutritionist, author, educator, speaker, consultant, and leading authority on eating to prevent illness and restore health. She is also the Founder of WTFORK, the no B.S. Roadmap for Healthier Choices. She received her Master of Science in Nutrition from Teachers College, Columbia University, is a Certified Nutrition Specialist®, Board Certified Dietitian Nutritionist, and a graduate of the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. She has collaborated with prominent integrative functional MDs to help their patients use food to heal, and for nearly three decades, she has helped transform the way people eat using hands-on experiences to inspire and educate, while offering practical tools for food lifestyle change.
As a chef, nutritionist and innate healer, Stefanie uses food as a conduit to deep transformation. She empowers people to eat and live to their full potential. Her book What The Fork Are You Eating is a must-read guide for anyone looking to make food changes, small or large, for optimal health.
Over the years, she has worked with those in movies, television, music, fashion and more. In addition, she has offered her expertise to global culinary icon Jean Georges Vongerichten as well as prominent institutions and organizations including Environmental Working Group where she was commissioned to write The Health Benefits of a Plant Forward Diet for the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health; Teachers College, Columbia University; Cornell Cooperative Extension; and Luv Michael/US Autism Homes. She also has an extensive archive of broadcast, radio, print and digital contributions on the topic of healthy choices.
In 2017 Stefanie was inducted into Les Dames D'Escoffier, an international philanthropic organization of women leaders in the field of food, fine beverage, and hospitality. She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Nutrition Association, and sits on the advisory board of A Greener World.
A native New Yorker, Stefanie lives on the East End of Long Island with her husband, two very active sons and Faith, her beloved rescue lab. When she is not in her kitchen creating new recipes or feeding her family and friends, she is cheering her boys on in their respective sports, reading a good book, writing slam poetry, swimming in the bay, hiking in the woods with her pup, or running with disco blasting in her Airpods.
