Eating from Our Roots

"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"--