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Cook Like Your Ancestors

An Illustrated Guide to Intuitive Cooking With Recipes From Around the World

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A fully illustrated guide to intuitive cooking! This beginner-friendly cookbook includes a primer on tools, ingredients, and using your own five senses to make delicious food, as well as twenty vegetarian recipes from worldwide cuisines.

Have you ever met someone who never uses recipes, yet makes incredible meals every time? It seems to be a magic preserved only in the hands of grandmothers, or any passionate provider. An ancient, special knowledge that takes a lifetime to perfect. But that's not always true. You can start learning now, and you probably know far more than you think.

Inside this fully illustrated cookbook is an introduction to intuitive food preparation! Meaning less reliance on teaspoons, grams, degrees, and exact cook times, and more on the way humans have always cooked: by tasting, watching, smelling, listening, feeling, and remembering. Follow along with home chef Mariah-Rose Marie to learn how to measure with your hands, season with your senses, balance flavors on the fly, remember ratios, and more—all with minimal equipment and minimal spending.

You can practice your new knowledge with the twenty delicious vegetarian recipes collected from family, friends, and contributors throughout the globe. From Persian kashk-e bademjan and Icelandic skyrterta to Mexican-Taiwanese horchata con boba, the recipes range from traditional to transformed, reflecting the way foods—like people—migrate, mix, adapt, and are remembered. This book was created with international and financial accessibility in mind, and the hope that readers of all backgrounds will find appreciation for the myriad people and flavors of our shared world.

So grab your trusty cast iron skillet, and get cooking!

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    • Booklist

      October 1, 2023
      Delicious homemade food can seem like magic, especially when the cook isn't working from a detailed recipe, but in this inviting cookbook filled with warm illustrations and comics panels, Marie works to demystify intuitive cooking with approachable vegan and vegetarian recipes evoking a grandma's kitchen. Before getting to the recipes, she offers a quick guide to measuring without gobs of tools (a diagram of a hand indicating what a pinch means is particularly useful), essential equipment (none of which will break the bank), the best places to find particular ingredients (local markets and culturally specific grocers), and other tips to inspire confidence in trusting one's own senses and intuition. The recipes themselves are credited to the friends and family who shared them with Marie, and they have a truly global reach: kashk-e bademjan, a savory eggplant dip from Iran; horchata with brown sugar boba pearls, blending the Mexican and Taiwanese food cultures prevalent in L.A.; Navajo fry bread; pulneni chuski, stuffed roasted red pepper from Bulgaria; and a classic pound cake from the Southern U.S. None of the dishes is particularly complicated, and most reflect the many varied paths of migration across the globe that have resulted in delectable combinations of flavors and textures. Home cooks feeling nervous in the kitchen will find a reassuring guide here, and experienced cooks will be reinvigorated by Marie's compelling recipes.

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