goop: 3 Nourishing Trinidadian Recipes from Nutritionist Maya Feller

Written by: Denise John, PhD
Published on: December 22, 2022

Working with registered dietitian Maya Feller is a revelation: She’s practical but not prescriptive. Her advice about healthy eating is always nonjudgmental—she really listens, especially about the foods you have always loved, the flavors that bring you joy, and the dishes you cannot imagine a life without. And she’s able to translate those deeply personal affinities into nutritional habits that—over time—have the power to change your life.

In her new cookbook from goop Press, Eating from Our Roots, Feller shares nourishing recipes from cultures around the world, including North and West Africa, the Middle East, Thailand, Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago, where she often visited family as a child.

Some of her fondest memories there, she says, are tied to food: her five-year-old self leisurely sucking on sugarcane beneath the warm, beaming sun with her grandfather, and her frequent trips to Toco to visit her aunties and uncles, during which she would anticipate eating coconut bake—a quick bread—and other enduring dishes her family often made, a few of which she shares here.

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