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Mix It Up: The Culinary Medicine Cookbook for Mixing Things Up in the Kitchen

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Mix It Up: The Culinary Medicine Cookbook for Mixing Things Up in the Kitchen

Mix It Up: The Culinary Medicine Cookbook for Mixing Things Up in the Kitchen

We are bringing nutrition education into the kitchen through culinary medicine—a blend of culinary techniques and nutrition science that makes food delicious and cooking accessible. Dive into a collection of tasty recipes and practical resources designed to help you personalize the cooking experience. Our adaptable recipe frameworks democratize traditional recipes, celebrating personal food choices and encouraging readers to use ingredients that they love or already have on hand. Whether you are a healthcare professional seeking culinary medicine content or a consumer simply looking for delicious recipes to elevate your home cooking, this book serves as a complete guide to inspire creativity, build confidence, and help mix things up in the kitchen.

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What's Inside

What's Inside

What's Inside

This book doesn’t teach strict rules—instead, it promotes flexibility and creativity. With 75 adaptable recipe frameworks, you can create thousands of variations based on your preferences and ingredients already on hand. One framework for a stir-fry recipe alone can yield more than 40,000 combinations! Use this book to enhance your own culinary skills and dietary pattern or as a textbook to teach culinary medicine to diverse populations spanning from community members to medical students. 

To help you mix things up in the kitchen, this book offers: 

  • 75 recipe frameworks adaptable to your pantry

  • 50+ skill videos to improve culinary skills and enhance flavor and nutritional value

  • 10+-page substitution guide to expand ingredient options and maximize utility of the recipe frameworks 

  • Nutrition and culinary tips to create a learning experience out of every recipe

  • Growing repository of free, printable teaching handouts and other resources to help you further learn and share your knowledge

This book doesn’t teach strict rules—instead, it promotes flexibility and creativity. With 75 adaptable recipe frameworks, you can create thousands of variations based on your preferences and ingredients already on hand. One framework for a stir-fry recipe alone can yield more than 40,000 combinations! Use this book to enhance your own culinary skills and dietary pattern or as a textbook to teach culinary medicine to diverse populations spanning from community members to medical students. 

To help you mix things up in the kitchen, this book offers: 

  • 75 recipe frameworks adaptable to your pantry

  • 50+ skill videos to improve culinary skills and enhance flavor and nutritional value

  • 10+-page substitution guide to expand ingredient options and maximize utility of the recipe frameworks 

  • Nutrition and culinary tips to create a learning experience out of every recipe

  • Growing repository of free, printable teaching handouts and other resources to help you further learn and share your knowledge

About the Authors

About the Authors

About the Authors

Olivia Thomas, MS, RDN, LDN, is the Director of Nutrition Innovation and Implementation at Boston Medical Center, where she leads efforts to integrate food-based interventions into clinical care and develop community-driven, culturally affirming programs to prevent and manage diet-related chronic diseases. Olivia pioneered nutrition-focused training for healthcare professionals by co-founding Boston University’s culinary medicine program. She also leads hands-on workshops and develops programs for institutions nationwide and spearheaded the development of technology-enabled products that bring personalized culinary medicine beyond the teaching kitchen and into homes. An accomplished writer and speaker, Olivia regularly publishes and presents on nutrition, culinary medicine, and community engagement. Olivia is a PhD student at Australian Catholic University, where her research focuses on sports nutrition and supporting high-performing athletes through culinary medicine. 

Christina Badaracco, MPH, RDN, LDN, works as a healthcare consultant, author, and thought leader, seeking to advance the role of nutrition in healthcare. She applies her expertise in healthcare and public health research, policy, and practice to support leading institutions and organizations across the world to improve care delivery and health outcomes. She also regularly writes, teaches, and develops trainings and programs about nutrition, culinary medicine, and sustainable agriculture—including designing and directing award-winning and innovative culinary medicine trainings and programs for various healthcare institutions and professional associations and coauthoring The Farm Bill: A Citizen’s Guide. Christina previously worked for Avalere, a healthcare advisory firm, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, Oakland Unified School District, and NIH Clinical Center. Christina holds various leadership roles within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Slow Food and she is actively engaged in her local food and healthcare systems. 

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