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The Cancer Fighting Kitchen - Rebecca Katz New cookbook Treatment Recovery
THE CANCER FIGHING KITCHEN
Nourishing Big-Flavour Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery
by REBECCA KATZ with Mat Edelson
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New hardcover book, 232 pages. Published 2009, winner of 2 awards in the 2010 IACP Cookbook awards - Health and Special Diet and the People’s Choice Award
A Culinary Pharmacy in Your Pantry
The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen features 150 science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects including fatigue, nausea, dehydration, mouth and throat soreness, tastebud changes, and weight loss. A step-by-step guide helps patients nutritionally prepare for all phases of treatment, and a full nutritional analysis accompanies each recipe. This remarkable resource teaches patients and caregivers how to use readily available powerhouse ingredients to build a symptom- and cancer-fighting culinary toolkit. Blending fantastic taste and meticulous science, these recipes for soups, vegetable dishes, proteins, and sweet and savory snacks are rich in the nutrients, minerals, and phytochemicals that help patients thrive during treatment.
Whole foods, big-flavor ingredients, and attractive presentations round out the customized menu plans that have been specially formulated for specific treatment phases, cancer types, side effects, and flavor preferences. The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal.
In her new book, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen, Rebecca offers a book infused with both fantastic taste and meticulous science, utilizing delicious ingredients rich in the nutrients, minerals, and phyto-chemicals that people simply must have to thrive during treatment.Full of wisdom, experience, and comments from Rebecca and a panel of America's foremost integrative oncologists, physicians, and cancer-wellness professionals, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen includes:
- More than 150 healthy, mouth-watering, recipes with easy-to-find ingredients that stimulate appetite and address treatment side-effects including fatigue, nausea, mouth and throat soreness, and low blood counts
- The 'Cancer Fighting Tool-Kit': Everything caregivers and friends need to keep loved ones eating during treatment, including advice, gleaned directly from Rebecca's practice with dozens of clients.
- Vital advice from Rebecca and her experts on putting together a culinary support team
- A 'Culinary Pharmacy' that reveals the peer-reviewed science behind every ingredient in the book
- Numerous strategies for thriving during treatment, including using food to optimize treatment, important lifestyle choices that help patients stay energized, and food shopping, preparation, storage and serving tips.
Written in a warm, engaging, encouraging, style, Rebecca's entertaining and informative prose helps people in treatment and their loved ones overcome their fear of cooking for someone dealing with cancer. Filled with humor, compassion, beautiful photography, and a wealth of useful information, The Cancer Fighting Kitchen brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a great meal.
The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen is a US publication. Measurements are in imperial and cup and spoon - most are in cup and spoon.
About the authors
Rebecca Katz is a nationally-recognized expert on the role of food in supporting health during cancer treatment. She has a Masters of Science degree in Health and Nutrition Education, and received her culinary training from New York's Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. As a consultant, speaker, teacher and chef, Rebecca works closely with patients, physicians, nurses, and wellness professionals to include the powerful tool of nutrition in their medical arsenal.
Rebecca is the Executive Chef for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine's Food As Medicine and CancerGuides® Professional Training Programs, which attracts the country's top cancer wellness physicians, nurses, social workers, and researchers. She is also visiting chef and nutrition educator at Commonweal's Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California, which offers intensive self-care programs for cancer patients and their caregivers. Rebecca is the author of 2 cookbooks - One Bite at a Time and The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, which won 2 awards in the IACP 2010 Cookbook Awards - Health and Special Diet and also the People’s Choice Award. Rebecca lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mat Edelson is a national award-winning freelance magazine journalist and past director of the Johns Hopkins Radio Health Newsfeed. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The Cancer Fighting Kitchen by Rebecca Katz with Mat Edelson
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