Eating from Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites from Cultures Around the World: A Cookbook Spiral-Bound | January 24, 2023

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN

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An acclaimed dietitian takes readers on 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
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    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.
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Original Binding: Hardcover Paper over boards
    Pages: 224 pages
    ISBN-10: 0593235088
    Item Weight: 1.7 lbs
    Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.8 x 9.4 inches
    Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars Up to 30 ratings
    “Feller’s far-ranging recipes are uncomplicated and transportive; they bring so much joy and flavor to the kitchen!”—Forbes

    “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.”—Gwyneth Paltrow, founder and CEO of goop
     
    “Her approach to cooking looks far, far beyond prescribed fad diets, which never work equally for those who try them. Here are dishes for all types of eaters, culled from diverse regions across the globe. I love the breadth of ideas here.”—Vice

    “In Eating from Our Roots, dietitian Maya Feller gives us a multi-cultural road map to healthier eating. While most dietitian-driven cookbooks are full of ‘No!’ . . . this one delights with ‘Yes!’ and makes the reader want to head for the kitchen.”—Jessica B. Harris, PhD, author of High on the Hog

    “Feller’s recipes are approachable and founded in nutrition and flavor. . . . This book is a great buy for a nutrition-conscious cook who won’t sacrifice flavor.”SF Gate

    “This beautiful cookbook will invite you to experience flavors from around the world in your own kitchen.”—Jenné Claiborne, author of Sweet Potato Soul

    “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.”—Dr. Will Cole, leading functional medicine expert and New York Times bestselling author of Intuitive Fasting and Gut Feelings
     
    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.”—Camila Alves McConaughey, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Women of Today
     
    “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 in your home kitchen!”—Jason Wachob, founder and co-CEO of MindBodyGreen
     
    “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.”—Marisa Moore, MBA, RDN, LD

    Eating from Our Roots is a uniquely inclusive approach to health via crave-worthy recipes from around the world. In this transformative and above all delicious cookbook, she points us toward a more sustainable way of eating and living.”—Jessica Jones, MS, RD, CDCES, and Wendy Lopez, MS, RD, CDCES, co-founders of Food Heaven
    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

    Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY