Cook Like Your Ancestors - Mariah-Rose Marie

A fully illustrated guide to intuitive cooking! This beginner-friendly cookbook includes a primer on tools, ingredients, and using your own five senses to make delicious food, as well as twenty vegetarian recipes from worldwide cuisines. Have you ever met someone who never uses recipes, yet makes incredible meals every time? It seems to be a magic preserved only in the hands of grandmothers, or any passionate provider. An ancient, special knowledge that takes a lifetime to perfect. But that's not always true. You can start learning now, and you probably know far more than you think. Inside this fully illustrated cookbook is an introduction to intuitive food preparation! Meaning less reliance on teaspoons, grams, degrees, and exact cook times, and more on the way humans have always cooked: by tasting, watching, smelling, listening, feeling, and remembering.

Mariah-Rose Marie is a graphic novelist, story artist, illustrator and writer whose work can be seen anywhere from Netflix, FX, and HBO Max to The New Yorker, Science for the People Magazine, and The Nib. With empathy and humor, they create works about wildlife, politics, queer culture, history, and the intersections of identity. When not working on her upcoming graphic novels or storyboarding for TV, she can be found tending to urban gardens, cooking something spicy, or fighting people for sport. Mariah-Rose lives on Tongva land, in Los Ángeles.