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Back to Green: Rediscovering a World of Delicious, Healthy Eating

by Marcus Samuelsson

Plant-forward cooking with stories rooted in place

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Plant-forward cooking with stories rooted in place

Back to Green connects a collection of plant-forward recipes with the histories and foodways behind ingredients such as coconut, corn, plantains, teff and rice. Marcus Samuelsson draws on conversations with chefs and farmers across regions including the Caribbean, South America, East Asia and Africa, linking food to ancestry, migration and community. The recipes range from smoothies and salads to a vegetarian injera lasagna, alongside profiles of food producers and chefs. The book presents traditional ingredients and cuisines as sources of delicious, nourishing food, and explores how sustainability, ritual and healing figure in the ways different communities relate to what they eat.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Home cooks interested in plant-forward recipes with global influences
  • Readers curious about the cultural histories of ingredients and food traditions
  • Those interested in perspectives from chefs and producers around the world

Themes

Plant-forward cookingFood, ancestry and migrationSustainability and food traditionsCommunity and cultural inheritance

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Book overview

Marcus Samuelsson, Award-Winning Chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author explores plant-forward eating around the globe, learning from chefs and farmers from the Caribbean and South America to East Asia and Africa.

In recent years, Marcus Samuelsson has reimagined the way he cooks, focusing more and more on nourishing, healthy, "of-the-earth" ingredients from around the world: coconut, rice, corn, acai, plantains, teff, chillis and more. As Marcus illuminates, these ancient ingredients are heirlooms, telling stories of ancestry, migration, and resilience. They bind communities, and if we look closer, they also offer a path toward healthy living.

In Back to Green, Marcus inspires readers to rediscover the cuisines of the globe that have provided us with healthy, delicious food for centuries. Countries in the Caribbean, the Americas, the Pacific, Asia, and Africa have long incorporated "superfoods" into their diets. The diverse and delicious recipes in this book include:

  • Papaya Passion Fruit Smoothie
  • Steamed Black Cod with Spicy Pineapple Salsa
  • Eggplant Omelet with Banana Ketchup
  • Rice Noodle Bowl with Ginger and Garlic Broth
  • Lentil Salad with Coconut Turmeric Vinaigrette
  • Vegetarian Injera Lasagna

With profiles of chefs and producers all over the world, Back to Green is a sweeping and groundbreaking celebration of cultures that have long looked at food through the lens of sustainability, ritual, and healing. It is a trek around the globe that will lead you back home to your kitchen, armed with soul-nourishing recipes that are waiting to be honored and passed down through generations once more.
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