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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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Cookery / food & drink etc

EATING FROM OUR ROOTS

Maya Feller

80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites from Cultures Around the World

From "one of the most brilliant registered dietitians ever" (Gwyneth Paltrow) comes a culinary trip around the globe with 80+ delicious, healthy recipes for heritage dishes embraced by diverse groups of people living in the United States.

The typical American diet is heavy in added sugars, salts, and synthetic fats, but one-size-fits-all nutrition plans often leave many of us wanting more. There's a more delicious way to eat sustainably and healthfully, by getting back to flavorful traditional cooking methods from cultures around the world including the Caribbean, South America, Africa, the Mediterranean, Asia, and more.

In Eating from Our Roots, Maya Feller, a registered dietitian and nutritionist known for her approachable, real-food-based solutions, highlights nourishing dishes from around the world with a focus on whole and minimally processed ingredients prepared with spices and flavor-enhancing techniques at home. She shares thoughtful and realistic ways to think about how we relate to food, along with nutrition highlights and tips throughout. 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:
- Sweet Potato and Leek Soup with Crispy Potato Skins from West Africa
- Salted Cod from Trinidad & Tobago
- Mezze: Cucumber Za'atar Salad, Olive Oil Labneh, and Olives from Lebanon
- Pad See Ew with Chicken from Thailand
- Cajun Gumbo from the American South
- Pao de Queijo (Brazilian Cheese Bread) from Brazil

With more than eighty recipes and beautiful photography throughout, Eating from Our Roots is a love letter to the globe that celebrates its amazing diversity of nourishing, flavorful dishes.

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN, of Brooklyn-based Maya Feller Nutrition is a nationally recognized registered dietitian nutritionist. She received her master's of science in clinical nutrition at New York University. Maya shares her approachable, real-food-based solutions through regular speaking engagements, writing in local and national publications, and as a nutrition expert on Good Morning America.

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Book Published 2023-01-24 by Rodale / goop Press

Comments

In this beautiful cookbook, Maya reclaims the healthy foods that nourished diverse people for generations and shows everyone the way to a more delicious way to eat healthfully.

Maya Feller takes us around the world to discover the healthy techniques and ingredients from an incredible range of countries. A treasure trove of new ideas beyond the same old 'healthy' recipes, this book will introduce you to new cuisines - and teach you how to recreate your favorite flavors your home kitchen!

In Eating from Our Roots, dietitian Maya Feller gives us a multi-cultural road map to healthier eating. Drawing from her own background and those of seven of her chef friends, she crafts a cookbook that is at the same time educational and enticing. While most dietitian-driven cookbooks are full of "No!"... this one delights with "Yes!" and makes the reader want to head for the kitchen.

Eating from our Roots takes us on a culinary journey around the world honoring the flavors and traditions of homeland dishes while offering simple and healthy ways to bring them to your own kitchen.

Maya Feller is one of the most brilliant registered dietitians ever. She combines a vast and nuanced understanding of nutrition and health with a culturally inclusive and joyful approach to cooking and eating. Eating from Our Roots will be a forever classic - we'll make these recipes for years and years to come.

There's a better way to eat for optimal wellbeing! By exploring the ways people eat sustainably around the world, Maya shows us that a health-supporting lifestyle doesn't have to be about restriction. In her hands, health means more variety, more creativity, and more flavor.

This beautiful cookbook will invite you to experience flavors from around the world in your own kitchen. I especially love the vegan recipes like Ital Stew from Jamaica and Quinoa Chaffado from Peru, which showcase the vibrant plant-based traditions of so many cultures.