Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel

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  • Classic nopalito salad

    • chezlarios on November 08, 2025

      I used canned nopales (had no access to fresh) and jalapeno peppers instead. Was good.

  • Abuelita's lentil soup

    • chezlarios on April 19, 2024

      Really excellent flavours, and not difficult to make at all. Highly recommend!

  • Verdolagas, beans & butternut squash stew

    • chezlarios on October 28, 2024

      I substituted canned poblano peppers for the anaheim chiles, maizena cornstarch for the masa harina, and already-ground cumin for the cumin seeds (toasted then ground). I also didn't have enough verdolagas on my balcony, so I added some frozen spinach. It was good, but I don't think it's something I would crave in the future.

  • Caldo de quinoa

    • chezlarios on July 21, 2024

      This felt very wholesome and healthy. I used feta instead of queso fresco, which gave it a nice salty kick.

  • Red pipian over rice

    • lauravalencia on November 06, 2021

      Replaced achiote with carrots due to availability

    • chezlarios on October 03, 2024

      it was my first time making homemade pipian sauce - and it really did smell and taste like pipian! My guests were surprised that it was a vegan dish -- probably due to the complexity of all the flavours in the sauce -- but i still secretly wished I had added chicken.

  • Kabocha squash in pipian verde

    • TrishaCP on October 03, 2020

      This has so many things I like to eat in one recipe, but this just didn’t do it for me. Not a fan of leaving skin on kabocha squash, and the squash was dry. The pipian was labor-intensive and I’ve made much better versions. (And now I have a ton of this sub-par version.) This won’t be repeated.

  • Roasted guajillo salsa

    • chezlarios on October 12, 2024

      Great! I used it with tortilla chips, with egg tacos for breakfast, and will try with the turnip green tacos next.

  • Mesquite blueberry licuado

    • TrishaCP on November 13, 2021

      I thought this was way too sweet and I couldn’t really get past that point.

  • Sweet potato hash

    • chezlarios on February 10, 2024

      This was better than I expected! loved the sweet and savory notes. I used normal firm tofu (couldn't find sprouted) and red onion, turned out just fine.

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  • ISBN 10 1551525925
  • ISBN 13 9781551525921
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  • Published Nov 19 2015
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Countries Canada
  • Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press
  • Imprint Arsenal Pulp Press

Publishers Text

International Latino Book Award winner, Best Cookbook

A return to indigenous Mexican-American cooking: delicious recipes for physical and spiritual healing.

More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through centuries of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases. Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began seeking out recipes featuring healthy, vegetarian Mexican foods. They promote a diet rich in plants indigenous to the Americas (corn, beans, squash, greens, herbs, and seeds), and are passionate about the idea that Mexicans and Latinos/as living in the US and Canada need to ditch the fast food and return to their own culture's food roots for both physical health and spiritual connection.

This vegetarian cookbook features more than 100 colourful, delicious recipes inspired by indigenous ingredients and knowledge, such as Red Pozole with Medicinal Mushrooms, Healing Green Chileatole, Amaranth Corn Tortillas, and Prickly Pear Chia Fresca. Steeped in history, but very much rooted in the contemporary world, Decolonize Your Diet will introduce readers to the energizing, healing properties of a plant-based Mexican-American diet.

Full-colour throughout.

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