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The Healing Table is a culturally-rooted wellness initiative from Red Rice Books, created in collaboration with a registered dietitian, Demetria Cox-Thomas, also know as Dee Veggie Chef. This series explores the intersection of food, heritage, and health through conversations, workshops, and shared meals that honor the traditions of the African Diaspora. By blending storytelling with practical nutrition guidance, The Healing Table reclaims nourishment as both cultural practice and everyday care.
- Visit the Dee Veggie Chef collection curated at Red Rice Books
- Shop the collection. You may also search for the book of the season by using the search option on the bookstore's website
- Use discount code "deeveggiechef" to receive a percent off
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Book of the Month
Reject diet culture, achieve a healthy relationship with food, and nourish your body and soul with this book from registered dietitian, nutritionist, and creator behind the Instagram @TheNutritionTea, Shana Spence.
In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that is engrained in countless aspects of our society, and that keeps us from living healthily and joyfully. It's a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And it's a belief that pervades our society.
Spence's arguments will open your eyes to the insidiousness of this mindset, which coopts the way that we speak, we eat, we move, and live our lives. Through a takedown of diet culture in all its forms, Spence explains why diets don't work, and provides you with the courage and the knowledge needed to prioritize nourishing the body and soul.
To get there, Spence walks you through healing your relationship with food. Touching on concepts like intuitive eating and health at any size, Live Nourished provides you with a roadmap towards eating, moving, and living in a way that works for you.
Spence's thesis is simple: If we can learn to separate ourselves and our worth from diet culture, we can learn how to eat when we're hungry, meet our body's unique needs, and discover which foods give us pleasure--all while nourishing our bodies and souls in the process.