Luz calvo and catriona rueda esquibels decolonize your diet cookbook aims to offer healthy recipes based on a traditionally mexican plantbased diet. Many diseases like diabetes are blamed on race or cultural diets. Steeped in history but very much rooted in the contemporary world, decolonize your diet will introduce readers to the the energizing, healing properties of a plantbased mexican american diet. Decolonize your diet will walk with you as you reclaim your culture by sharing recipes, cooking techniques, and discussions of ingredients. When we see these plants and the animals, we dont see them as natural resources that are there for our taking, we see them as relatives that live in their own communities, just like other humans live in their communities. Luz calvo and catriona rueda esquibel are professors at california state east bay and san francisco state university. Plantbased mexicanamerican recipes for health and healing, which emphasizes the healthpromoting merits of foods common among indigenous mesoamerican people in the centuries before european colonizers arrived.
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This backgrounder is a brief introduction to the decolonize your diet project and its role in a. Luz calvo and catriona rueda esquibel are professors at california state east bay and san francisco state university, respectively. International latino book award winner, best cookbook. Chapter i of decolonize your diet pub lished by arsenal pulp press. I decolonized my diet for seven days and heres what.
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