Decolonize Your Diet

Name: Decolonize Your Diet
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781551525921
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Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing

By Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel

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Decolonize Your Diet by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel explores the idea of reclaiming healthy, nutritious eating through traditional Mexican and indigenous recipes. It celebrates the rich heritage of these cuisines and provides guidance on how to incorporate ancestral foods into a modern diet, with a focus on plant-based ingredients. The book promotes holistic wellness by connecting with cultural roots and advocating for food sovereignty.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in exploring Mexican cuisine through a healthy and culturally enriching lens. It offers a blend of delicious plant-based recipes and insights into indigenous food traditions, making it ideal for anyone passionate about nutrition, heritage, or sustainability.

Decolonize Your Diet

More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet

Description

Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian South American foods. Luz's cancer is now in remission.

Decolonize Your Diet features the best of the recipes they discovered during this transformative journey. Guatemalan-Style Pepian Stew, Speckled Bean and Hominy Stew, Amaranth and Corn Tortillas with Chia Guacamole and Aguachile de Quinoa are just a few of the delicious dishes covered.

The cookbook includes over 120 recipes and features full-colour photography throughout.

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Decolonize Your Diet redefines Mexican food with a focus on health and justice, challenging misconceptions about its nutritional value. The book blends recipes with insightful analysis, celebrating both simple dishes like beans and tortillas and more complex creations, highlighted by sources such as the Los Angeles Times and Global Comment.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781551525921

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 November 2015

Country: Canada

Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 764g

Pages: 260

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Catriona Rueda Esquibel Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Luz Calvo Non-Fiction Vegetarian Cook Books

About the Author

Catriona Rueda Esquibel was a professor in the Ethnic Studies department at San Francisco State University. She held a BA in English from New Mexico Highlands University (1988), a Master's degree in English literature from the University of Colorado (1991), and a PhD in the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz (1999). Decolonize Your Diet, written with her partner Luv Calvo, was her first book. Catriona Rueda Esquibel passed away in 2024.

Luz Calvo received their PhD in the History of Consciousness at University of California Santa Cruz and also holds an MA in Political Science (UCLA) and AB in Politics (Princeton University). Dr. Calvo teaches courses in Latino/a Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Food Justice, and Ethnic Studies at California State University East Bay. Decolonize Your Diet, written with their late partner Catriona Rueda Esquibel, is their first book.