Cookbooks by Black Dietitians

March is National Nutrition Month®! This year’s theme, “Celebrate a World of Flavors,” demonstrates how flavors from cultures around the world are a tasty way to nourish ourselves and appreciate our diversity. Throughout March and the rest of the year, embrace the foods and flavors of your heritage and other global cultures. My team and…

Wild Mushroom Soup [Recipe]

  Wild Mushroom Soup is a lighter savory soup perfect as an appetizer or as part of a meal. Low in calories and cholesterol-free, mushrooms contain a modest amount of fiber and over a dozen minerals and vitamins, including copper, potassium, magnesium, zinc and a number of B vitamins such as folate. This recipe is adapted from…

Roasted Beet & Goat Cheese Salad [Recipe]

  Summer season is salad season for me and this roasted beet and goat cheese salad is simple and delicious. Beets are a nutritional powerhouse filled with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, or molecules that help prevent certain diseases by fighting off the damage inflicted by free radicals. The prep and cooking time is about an…

Saute Purple Cabbage

Purple Cabbage [Recipe]

  Purple cabbage also is known as red cabbage brightens up any meal. Just look at that color! It contains a type of group of phytochemicals or compounds found in plant foods with disease-fighting properties known as polyphenols. What’s so important about polyphenols? Polyphenols may offer antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits. In other words, it’s…