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Eating from our roots

Feller, Maya (author.).

Summary: "Eating from Our Roots is a love letter to the globe that celebrates nourishing, flavorful dishes from cultures around the world. A registered dietitian and nutritionist known for her approachable, real-food-based solutions, Maya Feller highlights the nourishing roots of foods from regions including the Caribbean, South America, Africa, the Mediterranean, Asia, and more. She shares thoughtful and realistic ways to think about how we relate to healthy foods, along with nutrition highlights and tips. The standard American Diet is known to be rich in added sugars, salts, and synthetic fats. Eating with flavor and nourishment at the center of our plates supports our health without relying on standard American patterns of eating. You can achieve health by getting back to the traditional cooking methods, with a focus on whole and minimally processed ingredients prepared with spices and flavor-enhancing techniques at home. Maya makes it easy to enjoy the vibrant flavors of your favorite cuisine, whether that's the foods you grew up eating in the family kitchen or new recipes you're discovering for the first time. Recipes like: Red Wine-Braised Fried Chicken with Spiced Honey from West Africa Granny's Callaloo from Trinidad & Tobago Mezze: Cucumber Za'atar Salad, Olive Oil Labneh, and Olives from Lebanon Filipino Pork Adobo from the Philippines Biscuits with Blackberry Cayenne Jam + Chamomile Butter from the American South With more than eighty recipes and beautiful photography throughout, Eating from Our Roots is an approachable, inclusive approach to healthy cooking"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593235089
  • ISBN: 0593235088
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    223 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Goop Press/Rodale, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: International cooking
Cooking (Natural foods)
Genre: Cookbooks.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Border Regional Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Main Branch - Border Regional Library 641.59 FEL (Text) 36830003211495 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2023 January #1
    Nutritionist and cookbook author Feller (Southern Comfort Food Diabetes Cookbook, 2019) teaches readers about the importance of nutrition, using foods from various cultures. Nutrition is an ever-evolving science, she explains, not a rule written in stone, and nutritional goals can be met by eating more of the foods that we already enjoy. Readers will appreciate Feller's helpful tips, such as advice on how to stock a pantry, with a section on understanding processed foods, and a helpful chart for plant-based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs. Some recipes are local, such as griddlecakes from the northeastern U.S., while others boast more international roots: coconut bake from Trinidad and Tobago, French branzino bouillabaisse, and sweet potato and leek soup from West and Central Africa. Recipes are about a page long and include a summary about the dish as well as occasional historical commentary and ingredient-based highlights. A perfect book for health-conscious readers and armchair-traveling foodies. Copyright 2023 Booklist Reviews.
  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2023 January #1

    "Disentangling ourselves from restrictive eating patterns and focusing on sustainable and enjoyable nourishment is liberating," declares dietitian Feller (Southern Comfort Food Diabetes Cookbook) in this wide-ranging exploration of healthy eating. Her intention to decolonize accepted notions of mindful eating is clear from the start, and she includes dishes and practices from the African diaspora and other non-Western cuisines to spotlight the foods that "have often been left out of health and culinary conversations." Feller enlists the help of seven expert chefs, offering creative dishes like savory French toast imbued with Indian spice and stuffed with cashew cream, or watermelon "steaks" treated to a marinade of beets, tamarind, and hibiscus leaves to intensify their color and add tart flavor notes. Her own Caribbean heritage is celebrated in several ways, including a coconut quick bread from Trinidad and Tobago and the vegetarian diet of Jamaica's Rastafarians, whose Ital stew contains pumpkin, plantains, okra, split peas, corn, and habanero pepper. Sprinkled throughout are essays that explore histories of global cuisines and track the ways ingredients spread through trade and enslavement. A helpful chart of plant-based substitutions for meat and dairy ingredients adds to the richness of this well-researched guide. Those seeking healthy recipes and culturally diverse fare will be pleased. Agent: Josanne Lopez, Lopez Talent Management.(Jan.)

    Copyright 2022 Publishers Weekly.
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