How this started
A few years ago I was diagnosed with a fairly rare type of lymphoma. I chose to treat it naturally, at a hospital in Mexico, and part of that treatment is a complete change in how I eat. For the last three years, I’ve been creating an optimal environment for health within my body through how I eat: whole foods, as close to single ingredient as I can get them, and nothing processed.
My first thought was that dinner was going to be sad forever. I’ve always known how to cook from scratch. What I didn’t realize was that the ingredients I was using to make my homemade food had things in them that were making me sick. I had never thought to read the labels and know exactly what was going into my body.
It took a while, and a lot of mediocre dinners, before I stopped trying to substitute my way back to the old food and started cooking a different way instead. That is when it got good. What looked like restriction turned out to be an opening, into a whole world of real ingredients I had never bothered to get to know.
I am still healing. But I am healthier, and I feel better, than I have in as long as I can remember, healing in ways I never thought possible. A big part of that has been what I put on my plate: good quality food, organic, non-GMO, nothing processed. Cooking stopped being a workaround for what I couldn’t eat and became part of how I take care of myself. Every dish I bring to life at this table is part of how I am bringing myself back to life, too.
