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Martha Stewart: This Registered Dietitian Wrote a Book About Global Cuisine

February 3, 2023

This Registered Dietitian Wrote a Book About Global Cuisine, and Says There’s More to Healthy Eating Than the Mediterranean Diet

A more inclusive approach to food and nutrition can change how we think about eating well, explains Maya Feller, RDN.

By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
February 03, 2023

There’s no singular or correct way to eat or be healthy—that’s one of the biggest things Maya Feller, RDN, learned while writing her new cookbook, Eating From Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites From Cultures Around The World. The book is a celebration of cuisine that’s healthy by the merit of its origins and ingredients, rather than pure macronutrients.

This approach to nutrition is additive, not reductive, and encourages a balanced, healthy relationship with food. It’s achieved by consuming a variety of foods and flavors without being absolute—after all, humans and their respective diets are not a monolith. “I want to be a part of the movement that is celebrating heritage and traditional foods from cultures around the world,” Feller writes in the cookbook.

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Maya Feller

Maya Feller, MS, RD, CDN is the founder and lead dietitian at Maya Feller Nutrition. In her practice, her team provides medical nutrition therapy and nutrition coaching for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mood disorders, developmental disabilities, disordered eating, and more. Maya believes in providing inclusive nutrition education from an anti-bias patient-centered, culturally humble approach to help people make informed food choices. Maya shares her approachable, food-based solutions with millions of people through regular speaking engagements, writing, her social platforms, and as a national nutrition expert on Good Morning America, is a Healthline Medical Advisor, and on the advisory board for SHAPE and Parents, as well as appearing on TODAY Show, Tamron Hall, and in The New York Times, mindbodygreen, Well+Good, Food Network, Martha Stewart, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Cooking Light, Eating Well, Prevention, Glamour, SELF, and more. She is the author of The Southern Comfort Food Diabetes Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes for a Healthy Life and Eating from Our Roots: 80+ Healthy Home-Cooked Favorites from Cultures Around the World (goop Press, January 24, 2023).

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