Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing

More than a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet reimagines what it means to eat "traditional" Mexican food by tracing its roots back hundreds of years to reclaim heritage crops as a source of resistance to modern diseases of development. Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; after Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both drastically altered their diets and began looking for recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian Mexican foods.

They advocate for a diet rich in plants native to the Americas (corn, beans, squash, greens, herbs, and seeds) and are passionate about the idea that Latinxs in America, particularly Mexicans, should abandon fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for both physical health and spiritual fulfillment. This vegetarian cookbook includes over 100 colorful recipes based on Mesoamerican cuisine, as well as contributions from indigenous cultures all over the Americas.

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