Alaena Haber, MS, OTR, makes her cookbook debut with The Healing
Kitchen, showcasing her dedication toward nourishing and fresh
meals in a modern, budget-conscious kitchen. Alaena's no stranger
to cooking-she runs popular blog Grazed and Enthused. She started
preparing meals for her family as a child, and many of her
techniques and flavor pairings are inspired by the aromatic
family-style meals that made her Lebanese grandmother Teta a
legend. But unlike Teta, you won't be spending all day at the stove
complaining about sore feet with this collection of recipes. Alaena
pursues a holistic approach to happiness and well-being and truly
believes health starts on your plate. She passionately uses a
grain-free, anti-inflammatory diet to successfully manage her own
chronic illness and wants to bring these healing recipes to your
dinner table. Alaena also recently received her master's degree in
occupational therapy, which allows her to help adults and children
pursue and achieve meaningful lives. Alaena, her husband, and their
dog have lived in four cities in the past 2 years and enjoy
traveling the country by foot, bike, and kayak.
Sarah Ballantyne, PhD, is the creator of the award-winning online
resource ThePaleoMom.com; cohost of the syndicated top-rated The
Paleo View podcast; and New York Times bestselling author of The
Paleo Approach and The Paleo Approach Cookbook. Sarah earned her
doctorate degree in medical biophysics at the age of twenty-six and
spent the next four years doing research on critical care medicine,
innate immunity, gene therapy, and cell biology, earning a variety
of awards for research excellence along the way. Sarah's transition
from academic researcher to stay-at-home mom to award-winning and
internationally recognized health advocate and educator was driven
by her own health journey, which included losing 120 pounds and
using both diet and lifestyle to mitigate and reverse a dozen
diagnosed health conditions. As a scientist both by training and by
nature, Sarah is deeply interested in understanding how the foods
we eat interact with our gut barriers, immune systems, and hormones
to influence health. Sarah's innate curiosity goes further than
just understanding diet, and she is also deeply interested in the
impact of lifestyle factors like sleep, stress, and activity. Her
passion for scientific literacy and her talent for distilling
scientific concepts into straightforward and accessible
explanations form the foundation of her work and her dedication to
improving public health. Sarah also emphasizes a theory-to-practice
approach in all of her work through her focus on recipe creation
and everyday solutions.
"Sarah and Alaena's volume of recipes speaks to the heart of what anyone trying to heal their body truly needs--practical, lifestyle-specific resources that will help you provide nourishing meals with minimal time, cleanup, or effort. The Healing Kitchen makes achieving wellness possible, with variety, flavor, and fun!" --Mickey Trescott, NTP, and Angie Alt, CHC of autoimmune-paleo.com
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