STAT August 18, 2025
In a Q&A, Eisenberg speaks about fighting chronic disease by shifting people away from ultra-processed foods
To understand how David Eisenberg became one of America’s greatest champions of culinary medicine, it helps to know that his childhood is divided into a before and after.
Before: He grew up amid neat rows of cream puffs and the warm smell of yeast, learning the alchemy of food at his father’s Viennese-Jewish Brooklyn bakery. Then came the after: His father died at age 39 of a heart attack, and he lost his three grandparents within the same year. Eisenberg was 10 years old.
“Nobody talked about it, as was the culture of the times, thinking that if the parents didn’t talk about...
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